KABUL: Five young Afghan women slipped out to lunch in an upmarket Kabul eatery on Valentine’s Day, each wearing a red scarf in a wink to the day of love — a difficult pursuit in Afghanistan.
“It was fun. We also bought a cake,” said one of them, a 26-year-old employee of an international nongovernment organisation who asked to be called Jamila to hide her identity. The red scarves were a sign known only to this group of friends whose brush with foreigners introduced them to Valentine’s Day — an event largely unknown in Afghanistan, where love outside of marriage is taboo.
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