Word: mohibullah
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...went downstairs and moved towards my cab, the restaurant staff surrounded me to provide some sort of cover. As soon as I settled next to the driving seat, Mohibullah who was virtually hysterical, shouted at me, "Don't talk in Urdu. (My Pakistani native language). Keep quiet. I will talk to them. You don't talk. Understand? You are my responsibility. I will take you back." And then he sped...
...None of them looked up as we passed by. Mohibullah was driving up to 80 miles an hour on a narrow street through the town. And his constant honking to clear the road was actually attracting everyone's attention. I was also shaken. He was moving street to street searching for a safe passage out of town, and it appeared gunmen were everywhere - on foot, on Toyota pickups...
...then he was back, driving on. "Don't worry," he said. "I know them." We had hardly moved a few hundred feet when Mohibullah suddenly veered off the road into a field. "Take it easy, I have to talk to my brothers," he said while constantly honking in an effort to attract someone's attention from the large mud house that stood in the field. Nobody came. He ran into another house. A moment later, at least a dozen armed men in two vehicles came towards our vehicle. In the meantime, Mohibullah had brought two men in military fatigues outside...
...Once outside the city, at the checkpoints that had been manned by the Taliban there now stood men in military uniform with camouflage caps rather than the shawls and black turbans that are the hallmark of the Taliban. Mohibullah turned on the radio. A female singer on a Pakistani station was singing in Urdu: "Please smile, just once." But Mohibullah and I could not manage a smile. We were too preoccupied with how we were going to get through the remaining hour of our journey...
...guards, and speed away. At one such checkpoint, he found some of his old friends. He got out of the car and hugged each one. At another checkpoint, another friend of the driver asked jokingly whether I was Taliban. "They are from Younis Khalis Group," said Mohibullah, gunning the engine to 80 miles an hour. "They have taken over the city. Talibans are gone...