
Gol Muhammad is a young teacher who is in love with a girl named Siah Moo, but he can’t afford the bride token in order to marry her. He asks her to wait for him and goes to Pakistan to earn the money. However, he is arrested because of his objection to Taliban’s policies about expelling girls from schools. When people hear no news from him, they believe that he is dead until ...

Gol Muhammad is a young teacher who is in love with a girl named Siah Moo, but he can’t afford the bride token in order to marry her. He asks her to wait for him and goes to Pakistan to earn the money. However, he is arrested because of his objection to Taliban’s policies about expelling girls from schools. When people hear no news from him, they believe that he is dead until ...
2003-08-01
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