"It is very shameful, but probably I will pay the bribe," Mohammed Naim, a young English teacher, said as he stood in front of the Secondary Courthouse in Kabul.

I was taking a photo of a country woman spinning wool, when she smiled and said to me, in perfect English: "How much do I get for that?"

The word "dram" translates into English as "money", and is cognate with the Greek drachma.