{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Hold up, boy!","author_name":"Massoud Qiam","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article3546.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article3546.html'\u003EHold up, boy!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn a warm summer day back in 2000, I was strolling down a Kabul street with my brother when I heard a voice from behind say, \u2018Hold up boy.\u2019 I turned around and saw a Taliban religious policeman holding a whip; his violent eyes fixed on us. My heart hammered inside my chest.  He stepped closer and without moving his lips started lashing me and my brother with his leather whip.  Pedestrians stared but walked briskly by.  The Talib told us with contempt, \u201dyou have grown your hair to attract (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}