orded Shafia a chance to get a good look at  strapless lace wedding dress the girl that his mother had selected for him.Rona's elder brother asked her if she would accept the proposal to marry Shafia.Rona didn't fully comprehend what it would mean to become a wife, but she recognized that it was her fate to be given away to a man she did not know or love.And so Rona's family investigated Shafia.They learned that his father, Akbar, had died in a car crash when Shafia was only two.Related'He's going to kill everyone here': Zainab Shafia on wedding nightKilled Because They Were Girls: An ebook from Christie BlatchfordShafia trial timeline: From 'where to commit murder' Google search to convictionsSee Shafia had completed Grade 6, but in the absence of a patriarch in his family, and out of economic necessity, he was thrust at a young age into a position of leadership and responsibility.He began apprenticing with extended family, learning to repair televisions and radios.By the time Shafia was a teenager, he had opened a small electronics shop with a loan from his grandfather.Shafia proved adept at electronic repair and was soon able to open a larger shop in downtown Kabul.He expanded from selling primarily radios to importing and reselling other electronics.an acceptable suitor.With the blessing of her family secured, the bright young high school student who had just completed Grade 11 was betrothed to a stranger seven years her senior.In a country where girls as young as two were offered up by their families as wives for men in their sixties and seventies, it was a reasonable arrangement viewed as a highly compatible match.And so, in 1978, Rona and Shafia were wed, beginning their new life together in the same year that Afghanistan began its descent into three bloody decades of war and chaos that would reduce Kabul to rubble and displace millions of Afghans.President Daoud Khan was assassinated in a coup in which thousands died.War planes fired on the presidential palace in Kabul as military  beach style wedding dresses units loyal to Daoud battled troops sympathetic to the Soviet Union, which had long provided financial and political support to Afghanistan.Rona and Shafia were still relative newlyweds when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in December 1979.Soviet commandos stormed the palace and killed the president, setting the stage for the installation of a puppet leader and a deadly, decade-long occupation that would see one million Afghans die.In the Shafia home, an unexpected problem was festering: Rona could not get pregnant.At first, Shafia was not troubled by her failure to give him a child.He was busy with his expanding business empire.He launched a company, Babul Ltd.to import and distribute products from Japan.Rona visited several doctors, received injections and assurances, but still failed to conceive.Shafia took her to India for treatment from experts, but the expensive intervention did not help.After several childless years, Shafia began to hear derisive jokes from his acquaintances and business associates.People were ridiculing him for his failure to impregnate his wife.Maybe something was wrong with him, they were saying.There were crude taunts about farm animals.Shafia trained his anger upon his barren wife.He began to snipe at Rona and became more controlling, telling her to stop leaving the home to visit her mother.Rona would write in her diary, years later.Until that point, she had considered his treatment of her to be kind.But Shafia could not contain his growing bitterness over his wife's failure to give him children.Rona's younger sister Houma arrived for an overnight visit.She was sitting with Rona when Shafia came into the room and snapped at his wife.You cannot give me kids.Shafia, you shouldn't say these kinds of things to my sister.Rona would not let the slight pass.she implored, challenging her husband.Shafia stepped forward and began slapping Rona on the face.Horrified, Houma retreated to her room.She did not confront Shafia and she never spent the night at her sister's home again.Houma feared for Rona but custom dictated that she should not  simple beach wedding dresses meddle in the affairs of another family.Rona's frustration with her husband's resentment and anger led her to a distasteful but, she believed, necessary decision.Feeling there was nothing else she could do, she told Shafia to marry again.Shafia said, promising to continue to seek a medical solution to Rona's infertility.As Shafia recalled it, he did not have to look far for a second mate.The wife of his longtime friend Aziz visited the couple's home in Wazir Akbar Khan, an affluent Kabul neighbourhood.She noted that the big house Shafia had built was quiet, devoid of the sounds of scampering little feet on the tile floors.The woman suggested her seventeen-year-old sister Tooba would make a good bride and mother.The educated girl, one of seventeen children of a well-to-do pharmacist, met with the suitor 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