In contrast to the secular and socialist government‚ which controlled the cities‚ religiously-motivated mujahideen held sway in much of the countryside. Beside Rabbani‚ Hekmatyar‚ and Khan‚ other mujahideen commanders included Jalaluddin Haqqani. The CIA worked closely with Pakistan ’s Inter-Service Intelligence to funnel foreign support for the mujahideen. The war also attracted Arab volunteers‚ known as "Afghan Arabs"‚ including Osama Bin Laden. After the withdrawal of the
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The movie The Kite Runner is based on a novel written by Khaled Hosseini. The movie starts in Kabul‚ located in Afghanistan‚ about a boy named Amir. His mother died during birth and his father‚ Agha Sahib‚ is a wealthy merchant who Amir thinks blames him for his mother’s death. Hassan‚ Amir’s loyal servant and best friend‚ lives on the property with his father‚ Ali who has served Agha for a long time. Hassan would often defend Amir from local bullies‚ meanwhile‚ Amir resented his father for favoring
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AK-47: The True Weapon of Mass Destruction How does one counter a gun that makes an average civilian as deadly as a professional soldier? This unanswered question has been puzzling superpowers for years. The AK-47 is the most readily available and easily fired gun in the world. It is quite indestructible and cheap to produce. No other gun comes close to it in its simplicity‚ which is what makes the gun world renowned. But the AK wasn’t always in the spotlight. For decades‚ the world’s leading
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How does Laila feel about being pregnant with her second child (Zalmai) at the beginning of section 4? Why does she feel this way? What does she contemplate about? Laila grows up with the constant feeling that her mother is very caught up with Laila’s brothers’ lives‚ and lacks the playing role of a mother in Laila’s life. This is evident when Laila states‚ “People shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones.” Laila adores Aziza‚ her
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mainly when the mujahideen (a groups of loosely aligned Afghan positioners) attacked Nawa’s school‚ Lycee Mehri‚ (its seems irrelevant and out place) in July of 1982 killing dozens of students and almost killing her sister Faiza. Nawa recalls that day as one that she and her mother went to take their weekly bath at the public bathhouse‚ a few miles from their neighborhood‚ while Faiza went to school. That day‚ a woman told her mother that her husband had heard that the mujahideen planned to attack
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The battle for power between the Mujahideen‚ Afghanistan freedom fighters and the Afghanistan communist Government lasted from 1979 – 1992 (Afghan War). During these 13 years of war‚ Hafizulla Amin the prime minister of Afghanistan killed Taraki in early 1979 and instituted himself as president
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Bangladesh‚ a legacy from the liberation movement era. Almost all parties have highly active student wings‚ and students have been elected to the Parliament. Three radical Islamist parties‚ Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB) and Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)‚ Harkatul Jihad were banned in February 2005 on grounds of militancy and terrorism.[2] Following the first series of bans‚ a series of bomb attacks took place in the country. The evidence of staging these attacks by these
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“To the Other Side of the Sky” and the article from the International Campaign to Ban Landmines both talk about the issue of landmines because Farah’s story supports the organization’s claims. In “To the Other Side of the Sky”‚ Farah gets hit by a landmine as a child. This blow caused many injuries to her body‚ like to her legs. According to the book‚ “‘Finally‚ I caught one quick glimpse‚ just one glimpse‚ and oh my God! That wasn’t my leg anymore‚ it was just meat! Oh‚ the redness of it‚ the utter
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I Am Malala: Independent Reading I. Cultural Connections Malala Yousafzi is the protagonist‚ narrator‚ and author of I Am Malala. She is born into a religious Pakistan family in Swat during a time of women oppression. Yousafzi makes a point to write about her happiness and freedom before Taliban took over. Her Pakistan heritage encourages many cultural traditions including dressing conservatively. Women are instructed to show respect by wearing burqas‚ which covered their face and body. The role
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In the summer of 1994 an Afghan man kidnapped and raped several young girls‚ people in the area were outraged but didn’t know what they could do. They turned to a man named Mohammed Omar who then called on his religious students and together they executed this man. Word spread of the event and the students were called to help other people with their experiences of injustice.(Tanner279) These men later became known as the Taliban‚ the men that massacred many‚ violated human rights‚ and turned Afghanistan
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