Illiteracy in Pakistan Essay

bad the conditions were in Afghanistan. But before she got shot, Malala Yousafzai was only a regular 15 year old girl. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora, which is a town that is in the Swat district in the north-west area of Pakistan. She was named Malala because her dad, Ziauddin Yousafzai, based her name off of the girl Malalai who was in a Pashtun folk story. She grew up in the valley of Swat, and her father had made a school right behind their home. The area in which…

During Writing 100 courses we watch numerous movies that were related to the topic of our discussion. Some of the movies we watch were Bhutto and America Revolutionary. The main protagonists in these movies were Benazir Bhutto and Grace Lee Boggs, these two incredible individuals shared many similarities and differences. For starters, they were both female’s that fought against the inequality happening in their country through peaceful protest, well for the most part. Grace Lee life consisted of…

The Negative Impacts of the War on Afghanistan Many people have different ideas about the war in Afghanistan. Some people oppose the war while others propose it. “September 11 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group Al-Queda hijacked four airlines and carried out suicide attacks against the United States targets” (“9/11 Death Statistic”). The war on Afghanistan started after these attacks on 9/11. The Afghanistan war has been going on for 12 years now and is currently…

Modern day Afghanistan is a difficult subject to discuss, and most people know very little about it. The once noble country has fallen into disarray after the infamous rise of the Taliban in the late 20th century. The extreme islamic fundamentalists have turned entire soccer stadiums into execution centers, and struck terror into the hearts of all Afghans. They also have forbidden women to work, and since most of their husbands were murdered by the Taliban the women and their children starve.The…

The film moreover portrayed the Taliban as more of an unorganized group. This was very obvious during the operation that the Taliban led against the Americans when Quraishi was present. The Taliban lacked the required technology that would allow them to detect oncoming Americans. Instead, they had to depend on the human eye. Most of their bombs did not go off as well. When this happened it was easy for the members to turn on one another, blaming each other for what had happened. This indicated a…

The Kite Runner is an honest, and touching novel written by Khaled Hosseini that takes place primarily in Kabul, Afghanistan. It is a story of two childhood friends; Amir and Hassan who are separated by the Soviet Invasion of 1979. During the invasion, Amir escapes to California where he becomes a successful writer. Fifteen years after his marriage, he receives a call to return to Kabul where he sets out on the quest to rescue Hassan’s son, Sohrab. Throughout the novel, real life events are…

area. Simultaneously in Kashmir, Pakistan feared that the Indians were spreading their political influence in Kashmir, and the Muslim population did not want to be under Hindu control. India had just recently finish a war with China in northern Kashmir in which the Indians lost thousands of men in the mountains of Kashmir. The Chinese victory showed the Pakistani government that the Indians were not prepared for war, and the Indian Army was weak. Subsequently, Pakistan decided this was a prime…

falling off, also at times the carcass is also filled with sand in order to give some extra weight. The second most popular sport in Afghanistan is soccer and is followed by cricket. Cricket was brought over by the Afghan refugees who had lived in Pakistan which is where cricket is a very popular sport. Once cricket was brought over to Afghanistan in 2002 it quickly flourished and Afghanistan went on to sharing the Asian Cricket Council with Oman. Afghanistan defeated Nepal in 2010 and won the…

periodicals to reinforce the idea why Afghan refugees should be granted with a Pakistani citizenship based on the reliability of each source, and if this information are enough to compare and contrast the articles. The reason behind this topic is since Pakistan has decided to send back its Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan. Given that it is a country which has been torn apart due to war, sending back these refugees to a country where they ran away from to save their life and for a better…

The author of The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, Narja Mazari escaped from the Taliban to Australia to only be treated like a prisoner in a detention centre in Woomera. The camp of Woomera is in the southern states of Australia. Mazari then met with Robert Hillman who helped him write up Mazari’s autobiography. The reader can tell that the author is in a “prison-like” centre by the way he describes the setting. The use of language informs the reader about the author about Mazari’s attitudes and…