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Swat would be Swat just with a different justice system.
斯瓦特依旧会是斯瓦特，只不过司法系统不一样而已。
I wanted to believe this but I was worried.
我很想相信这样的话，但我仍然心存疑虑。
I thought, Surely how the system works depends on the people overseeing it? The Taliban.
我认为，制度如何起作用，与实施它的人有莫大的关系。而实施者，是塔利班。
And it was hard to believe it was all over!
我很难相信这一切就这样结束了！
More than a thousand ordinary people and police had been killed. Women had been kept in purdah, schools and bridges had been blown up, businesses had closed.
1000多名平民和警察被杀害，女性被“妇德”两字捆绑，学校与桥梁被炸毁，许多公司终止经营。
We had suffered barbaric public courts and violent justice and had lived in a constant state of fear.
我们承受过野蛮的群众法庭和充满暴力的司法制度，永远活在恐惧中。
And now it was all to stop.
现在，这一切都将画上句号。
At breakfast I suggested to my brothers that we should talk of peace now and not of war.
吃早餐时，我向弟弟们建议，从此，我们应该只谈与和平有关的事情，不要再去谈论战争了。
As ever, they ignored me and carried on with their war games.
一如往常，他们无视我的意见，继续玩起他们的打仗游戏。
Khushal had a toy helicopter and Atal a pistol made of paper, and one would shout, 'Fire!' and the other, 'Take position.'
胡沙尔有一架玩具直升机，阿塔尔有一把纸做的手枪。他们一个大喊：“发射！”另一个则回应道：“就位。”
I didn't care. I went and looked at my uniform, happy that I would soon be able to wear it openly.
我懒得理他们，拿出自己的制服，很开心马上就能再次正大光明地穿上它了。
A message came from our headmistress that exams would take place in the first week of March.
我们的女校长通知我们，3月份的第一个星期会有考试。
It was time to get back to my books.
马上就要看见你们了，我的课本们！
Our excitement did not last long.
然而，好景不长。
Just two days later I was on the roof of the Taj Mahal Hotel giving an interview about the peace deal to a well-known reporter called Hamid Mir when we got the news that another TV reporter we knew had been killed.
短短两天之后，我正在泰姬玛哈旅馆的顶楼接受采访（访问我的是一位有名的记者哈米德·米尔，访谈主题与和平协定有关），消息传来，一名我们都认识的电视记者慕沙·汗·凯尔被杀害。
