Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Slayden Hayes expresses that Islamic fundamentalists continued to oppose the government. With help from the United States, camps were set up in order to provide the proper training on how to use the mass of large weaponry they also received. They saw themselves fighting in a "Holy War" and the Arabs joined in to try to help them out and hopefully defeat the Soviet Union (33). The people who most opposed the form of government chosen by the Soviets did have some help from outside groups and countries. The problems that one small country was having, impacted the world and got many other groups and countries involved in trying to help. The Soviets didn 't see a point in maintaining control in Afghanistan, so they withdrew in 1989. The CIA also…

Amir spent his whole childhood in Afghanistan with his wealthy father and best friend Hassan, son of their servant, who Amir witnessed being raped in an ally, and did nothing about. Soon after, they were forced to leave Afghanistan because it was becoming war torn. Amir continued to live his life in America, where he married the love of his life and his father died. Later in his life, Amir went to Afghanistan and retrieved Hassan’s son, who was his nephew, out of trouble with the Taliban. The…

Interviewer: Rashida Badour is a young girl who fled from Afghanistan, seeking refuge in Australia, at the age of 14. She fled from the poor treatment of Afghan women, the constant fear of warfare and the strict ways of the Taliban, in search of the freedom she knows she deserves. Rashida was born in Australia but before she had even her first birthday her parents took her back to Afghanistan to care for her sick grandparents. Unable to get back to Australia, Rashida grew up in Afghanistan only…

the position of women in Afghanistan, especially pertaining to the rule of the Taliban. In 1989, as a young teenager, I read Marie Claire’s ground breaking article entitled “My Escape from the Taliban”. This followed, in diary form, the story of a young woman who escaped from Kabul and found safety in Pakistan. The subsequent report that I have written for this month’s copy of Marie Claire…

Once the Taliban came to rule, all social aspects of life drastically changed for the women in Afghanistan. Women had the freedom to dress and present themselves according to their liking. Women dressed themselves wearing high heels, skirts that showed their bare legs, and freely styles hair and makeup. They could leave their house to go where they wanted, like any person should be able to do. Horia Mosadiq, and Afghan women, was a young girl at the time of Russia’s invasion in Afghanistan.…

Introduction Set mostly in Afghanistan in the regime of Taliban, the book Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini has won many hearts from its reader. The book that first published in 2003 really deserves a title as The National Bestseller. Bringing the theme of friendship, betrayal, guilt, redemption and the uneasy love between fathers and sons this novel had me thrilled and moved, both at the same time. Hosseini successfully portrays the feeling of the characters and also the situational at…

Oppressed, Inferior, and Unequal We all know that women’s rights are a big struggle in Afghanistan. It was worse when Afghanistan was under the Taliban rule. These women were treated unfairly, beaten for the slightest wrong move, raped, and thrown out like trash. Some women are putting up a fight and really trying to get their freedom. Unfortunately, the Afghanistan society and the way things were being ran before the Taliban fell are keeping these women from achieving the goal they want, and…

movements have had a negative effect towards the attitude of women’s equality in Afghanistan. The creation and enforcement of policies and laws related to women are extremely difficult because of the lack of recognition towards the equality problems. Also, many women are unable to participate in the process of women’s rights policies because of their lack of education, so they are unable to express their views in an effective way. The lack of material needed to improve women’s rights was due to…

By the mid-1990s, a fundamentalist group called the Taliban took control of the country. The Taliban ruled according to Islamic Sharia law and instituted extremely harsh restrictions on the country. Osama Bin Laden, a veteran of the fight against the Soviets, became a leading figure in the Al Qaeda terrorist organization, one of the largest and most sophisticated Islamic terror groups in the world. It was from within Afghanistan that Bin Laden and his followers plotted to strike against the…

chronicle of the volatile events of Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post- Taliban rebuilding that puts the nation through many adversities. This presentation focuses on the time period when the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is born, in September 1996, and the impacts of the Taliban rule after this. So a tiny recap for how the Taliban reign came to be. Daoud Khan seized power in a non-violent coup on July 17, 1973, while Zahir Shah was in Italy. Daoud…