Power In Afghanistan

Hassan is a victim of discrimination, bigotry, and class structure in Afghan society. Hassan and Ali are members of the Hazaras, a minority group of Afghanis. Amir and his father are Pashtuns, the majority, who believes they are a better class than the Hazara. Religion was all that separated Amir and Hassan, as did tribe and class. Amir learned from his father that the Harara tribe to which Ali and Hassan belonged, were inferior people. Because of this bigotry and basic class structure, Hazaras are often victims of physical, emotional and psychological abuse. Thus when a crisis comes and Hassan is being attack, Amir not only doesn't come to Hassan's aid, but also allows him to be brutally abused. Morality lacks because of this class structure, which allows people to be treated as second-class citizens. Considerations towards morality and religion helps the reader to broaden there understanding of the novel and it would be impossible to appreciated the book lacking them.

“ Assef unbuttoned his winter coat,took it off,folded it slowly.--- I opened my mouth, almost said something .Almost.The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had.But I didn’t. I just watched.” When witnessing first hand Hasan get rape Amir decides to ultimately be a bystander. Amir comes from the ethnic group of Pashtun and Hassan comes from the ethnic group of Hazara they are both viewed and treated very differently due to their economical stance.Being from two different social classes Amir decides to be a bystander due to the fact that he fears getting hurt, he wants to get Baba’s approval and the way he wants to be viewed by others.

This one decision left a stain on Amir for the next thirty years. A quote on pg. 88 states “I wish someone would wake me up, so I wouldn’t have to live with this lie anymore” This quote explains how guilty Amir felt after seeing Hassan get raped as he desperately sought for anyone to find out but didn’t chose to tell anyone the actual truth. Another example from the text is when Amir tries throwing pomegranates at Hassan, as an attempt to get Hassan to fight back and punish Amir for choosing to leave Hassan. However, Hassan refused to throw any pomegranates at Amir, but instead smashed one into his face. A quote on pg.94 states “I wanted Hassan to fight me back for the way I failed him” This quote indicates that Amir wanted Hassan to fight him back, so he could have the “punishment [he] craved” (93) This demonstrates that Amir wanted to feel the act of being punished for his wrongdoing, similar to how Hassan was brutally raped due to Amir’s apparent mistake. Amir’s guilt forces him to travel across two countries to seek redemption for the mistake he made. 15 years later, Amir’s guilt led him to make the hefty decision of returning to Afghanistan “to be good again” (189) by rescuing Hassan’s orphaned son, Sohrab, from the terrible conditions he was left to face in Kabul. Amir sees this as an opportunity to redeem and free himself from

Afghanistan has been in the spotlight since the 9/11 attacks, which was followed by the war in Afghanistan until 2014. The aftermaths of the war continue to be felt here as this nation is still developing and the Taliban groups continue to hold loads of power over this country such as practicing violent attacks in aims to push all foreigners out of Afghanistan. Additionally, Afghanistan is extremely vulnerable to natural disasters as there was an earthquake just three day ago with a magnitude of 4.4 in Ashkasham, and a flood during April of this year that killed 50 people. Moreover, these natural disasters have an enormous impact on this country as they already lack employment opportunities thus their economy is deteriorating. Hence voluntary

Historically, Afghanistan's strategic location at the crossroads of Asia has made the country the focal point of many imperialist ambitions and, throughout its history, the country has been subject to recurrent invasion and outside occupation.[2]

The war in Afghanistan has a complex history that goes back decades before the start of the fighting. The conflict started in 1978 when the Peoples Party came to power in Afghanistan, they ruled over the people with an iron fist. The Mujahideen stood up to the government and the Sour Revolution began. When the Soviet Union entered into Afghanistan to support the government we became afraid that communism would take over the country, and we sent supplies to the Mujahideen to aid them in their fight. The United States was fighting a proxy war with the Soviet Union, meaning that we were not fighting their troops with ours, but were aiding opposite sides of an existing fight. The Soviet Union left Afghanistan in 1988 and 1989, and the warlords that were part of the Mujahideen take over and rule parts of the country. The

The coup threw Afghanistan into everlasting war and turmoil. The country’s economy is still trying to recover from those years of conflicts.

The Taliban took over the country in terms of the composition of society, such as education, mosques, religions, and shrines (Spindlove & Simonsen, 2013). This group transformed Afghanistan and made it function how they wanted it to. The Taliban began to take over during Afghanistan’s civil war (Spindlove & Simonsen, 2013). This group eventually became involved in the drug trade in order to generate revenue to support itself (Spindlove & Simonsen, 2013). They provided training sanctions where propaganda also took place for soldiers who were not from Afghanistan (Spindlove & Simonsen, 2013). The Taliban was in charge of the military operations throughout Afghanistan and conducting terrorist attacks (Spindlove & Simonsen, 2013). It is known that

Afghanistan has a long and tumultuous history as a country that served as a buffer between the British and Russian Empires until it won its independence in 1919 (CIA.) In the years after gaining independence, the country had seen many changes in government leadership.

In addition to the ongoing problems, a lot of people in Afghanistan are internally displaced, meaning that they fled their homes only to move to the borders of Afghanistan. Most people have to flee from their homes because of violence, wars and lack of necessary needs to survive. The location in which they move is usually from war zones or places with high violence, to camps and “safety” shelters. However, Afghanistan does offer some assistance by having camps and shelters, unfortunately it doesn’t provide much help because of the terrible conditions and health hazards. Being internally displaced affects the population severely because a lot of women don’t go to school, and their is a lack of contraceptives causing more child birth rates.

Bombs have been part of parvana's whole life.This connects to the thesis because war in Afghanistan has affected societies,family and individuals.Through displacement incred child labor and decreased womens rights.

Beside the pride of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the United States of America Mr. Zalmay Khalillzad, I happen to be one of the most miserable sons of a bitch you can find on the face of the Earth. Of course not only according to His Honorable Pope Francis, but also millions of Americans, Afghans, Mexicans and over a billion and a half of human beings living around the world seeking Him as Muslims, including President of the United States of America, His Majesty, President Rouhani, President Abdullah Abdullah of Afghanistan, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. But for some unknown reason, I feel Prime Minister Modi, Camaron, Netanyahu and Trudeau are on the same page. Chancellor Merkel could not be more delightful, by knowing refugees from Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Libya, Yemen Syria and others will stop arriving in Germany during my presidency. I told you I will make America great again, didn 't I? Although my ancestors arrived here on boats from Poland, but I was fortunate enough to be fed with a silver spoon and even inherited millions. Senator Rubio could inform you with the accurate numbers as you wish. With three wives and four or more bankruptcies, I still managed to build my empire as you can see. I owned pretty much anything as I wished, except for love, respect, behavior, look and being the President of any country. I chose your beloved nation of America. Pieces of paper with pictures of Queen Rania,

In 1770 Britain had a monopoly on opium production in India and saw to it that cultivation spread into Afghanistan as well. By October 1838 the Governor of India issued the Simla Manifesto for the British intervention, setting forth the necessary reasons for British intervention in Afghanistan. The manifesto stated that in order to insure the welfare of India, the British must have an allie on India’s west frontier. The British pretense that their troops were merely supporting Shah Shujah's small army. Britain being very anxious to protect their drug trade send a group of 12,000 soldiers to Afghanistan to dethrone the king Dost Mohammad and set up their own hand-picked King Shah Shoja. In November, 1841 Massacre flared up in Kabul and the British

The main military goal that the Taliban set and wanted to fulfil from 1996 to 2001 was to cleanse the land religiously, and to begin the re-establishment of a state that would be Pashto dominant. More specifically, they wanted to return to the land the order of Abdur Rahman Khan, a man who had ruled as Emir of Afghanistan (military ruler of Afghanistan) from 1880 to 1901. Culturally, some of the actions and decisions made by the Taliban during its resurgence from 1996 to 2001 had a grim effect on Afghanistan as a nation, with the country becoming better known internationally for some of the acts of terrorism perpetrated by the Taliban. The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan led to a Western view of the country that was corrupted by a sole movement

In the 1970s Afghanistan got most of its income from the international state system, but the societies were split between a rural and urban economy. The Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989 created predation by commanders and smuggling into Pakistan because of this high risk environment peasants had to adapt. The Taliban was created by Afghan and Pakistan religious leaders to benefit from social capital because of commanders imposed heavy costs on trades between Pakistan and Afghanistan (Rubin, 2000, p. 1791).