Guardian of the Harem
It is not unusual to encounter that many women on a raid like that. Their rural compounds often house entire extended families; dozens of people. Then they have the hospitality tradition of letting in anyone who approaches and asks for shelter--a fairly common occurrence in a country where there is little in the way of hotels and motels and even less money to pay to stay in one. It is also not unusual for many of the men to be gone--out as a herder or fighting in the Afghan Army or for the Taliban or harvesting opium; the usual Afghan rural pursuits.