Across
- 3. a loose enveloping garment that covers the face and body and is worn in public by certain Muslim women (face completely covered)
- 5. to cease resistance
- 10. a fundamentalist Islamic militia in Afghanistan
- 11. full of scorn; contemptuous
- 12. boys who ran back and forth into the labyrinth of the marketplace, carrying tea to customers who couldn't leave their own shops.
- 13. one who offers merchandise for sale along the street or from door to door
Down
- 1. a private group of armed individuals that operates as a paramilitary force and is typically motivated by a political or religious ideology
- 2. the form of Persian spoken in Afghanistan
- 4. people from The Soviet Union before its break-up, including Russia and other communist countries
- 6. (n) an order usually having the force of law; (v) to command or enjoin by or as if by decree
- 7. a city and the capital of Afghanistan located on the Kabul River
- 8. one that causes wonder or astonishment
- 9. a large cloth worn as a combination head covering, veil, and shawl usually by Muslim women, especially in Iran.