Culture of Afghanistan

are the similarities and differences between the Taliban of Afghanistan/Pakistan today and the Mahdists of Sudan 130 years ago? The Taliban and the Mahdi purposes are to establish fundamental religious foundations for Sudan or the Islamic state. The Taliban emerged in the early 1990s in northern Pakistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The Taliban's promise in Pashtun areas surrounding Pakistan and Afghanistan was to restore peace and security and enforce their own…

of the citizens of Pakistan, including those in the Swat valley. Around 2007, the same time the army kicked up their efforts against the Taliban, one figure Maulana Fazlullah began to stand out. Fazlullah, living through the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, was always more prone to becoming a radical. Yet it wasn’t until he fell in love with the daughter of another Taliban member that he started down his…

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to fight for something you thought was right in this world? Well, this had been the situation where Malala had been in right now. Malala has been fighting for what she thinks is right for this world and should be done. What she is fighting for is for all women who don't have education to have education right now. There are more than 130 million girls without education and this is what she is trying to change. She wants all women to be equal and…

Mary Hirmiz Shooting Kabul by N.H Senzai Summary During the summer of 2001, panic and fear was rising in the people of Afghanistan when the Taliban began oppressing everyone and creating strict rules that limit people from doing many things. This led many to illegally leave Afghanistan and move to the United States and various other places around the world. Twelve-year-old Fadi’s parents decided to leave for the United States due to the oppression, and his mother’s health that had worsened by…

Malala Yousafzai A person shot and left for dead in a Middle Eastern country. With the current state of unrest in that region, this a familiar story that likely would not surprise many. In this story, the country is Pakistan and the victim is a 15-year-old girl that just wanted to go to school. This attack was the catalyst that thrust Malala Yousafzai into the spotlight and led to her becoming the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner and a global leader for change. Malala Yousafzai is a…

Afghanistan is currently in a very rough situation. The Taliban ruled over Afghanistan amongst other countries in the Middle East, but recently the US kicked them out of power and they hid. Afghanistan is now being ruled by a president, but the government is very corrupt. The GDP per capita of Afghanistan is the highest out of all countries and remains a third world country. The people living in Afghanistan live in extreme poverty and are in fear of being bombed, shot, or murdered on a daily…

(Pakistan is a country in South Asia, near Afghanistan and Iran.) She was privileged enough to have access to clean water, shelter, food, and most importantly to her, education. When she was hit by the fact that a man named Fazlullah (A radio “mullah”, or radio star against females’ education) was…

This essay seeks to analyze the relationship between the production of opium in Afghanistan and the sustainability of the Taliban. Rather than continue the failing anti-narcotics campaign in Afghanistan, the United States should undermine the power of the Taliban by pushing for development of the Afghan Economy through the utilization of the country's comparative advantage in opium production. The failure of extermination, the lack of profitable substitution crops, the important role that…

Malala Yousafzai, currently in Birmingham England, had recently a bullet shot to the head, and has just spoken to the United Nations. Ever since the Taliban, the strict Islamic militia, shot Malala in the head, she’s been a huge sensation and has truly shook the world, giving speeches to support educational rights. She has even said, “Education is the power terrorists fear most.” Ms.Yousafzai had been protesting through her speeches about females and males education and is also known in several…

Authors can be very discrete about how the innocent are portrayed and sometimes it could be very evident. Just like they could be this way about the victims, they can show the same execution with the victors. Victors are commonly associated with good but seen as in the Kite Runner, the character Assef who is the antagonist and has malevolent tendencies is a victor .A victim is someone who is negatively impacted by the conflict in the work. In The Kite Runner and Persepolis Khaled Hosseni and…