Tooba Yahya

Taliban Dept: As a postpubescent female in Kabul, with the radically fundamentalist Taliban seizing power, she would undoubtedly have donned the crown-to-toe swaddling forced upon women who ventured outdoors, according to The Star. In court here, Tooba never wore even the hijab, the modest head-covering scarf. This might have been a defence tactic, to demonstrate for the jury that Tooba and by extent her co-accused husband and son was not pious, not conservative, thus not unbearably strict with her daughters and unlikely to have acquiesced, much less participated, in what the prosecution described as a mass honour killing of three teenage sisters and Tooba s co-spouse and kINGSTON, ONT. I am trying to picture Tooba Yahya in a burqa, her bush of black hair tucked away under the forehead-pinching skullcap that anchors voluminous pleated fabric billowing like fish gills. Yet in a wedding photograph with Mohammad Shafia smiling between his two wives, linking arms with the old one and the new one 17-year-old Tooba wears a Western-style white bridal gown. And we know, from her own evidence on the witness stand, Tooba hailed from a liberal family as least liberal in Afghan terms to the extent that, when the Taliban forbade females from attending school, her father secured a private tutor for his youngest daughter. Such behind-closed-doors educating for girls was also against the law in Afghanistan. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.