Only few authors can take their readers to those interstices
where they penned their words, Khalid Hosseini is one among them. His first novel, The Kite Runner is one of the great classics I have
ever read in my life. The Kite Runner tells the story of a young boy, Amir from
the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, whose closest friend Hassan, his father’s
young Hazara servant. The story develops with vibrant events like Fall of the
Monarch, Soviet military intervention, massacre of Hazaras, refugees fleeing to
Pakistan and America, and the rise of Taliban, which shifted the country’s face
in front of International community.
Amir was a
Pashtun boy, whose father was a wealthy merchant whom he referred to as Baba.
His friend and Baba’s servant Ali’s son was an ethnic-minor Hazara boy, Hussan.
Baba loved both the boys but he was more sympathetic to his son, as his son Amir
was weak and didn’t like football. The boys played Kite Fighting and enjoyed
their days in the peaceful town of Kabul. Amir used to write stories and Baba
was not interested in it. But Baba’s friend and business partner Rahim Khan
encouraged him. Hassan who didn’t know to read anxiously waited to hear Amir’s
story. They used to play in the big ground of Baba’s mansion. But soon everything
changed.
Russia’s
military intervention made Baba and Amir flee to Peshwar, Pakistan and then to California.
He who lived in posh house in Kabul lived in a small apartment and Baba went to
a gas station to work. Amir went to a community college to improve his writing
skills in English; he fell in love with an awesome lady Soraya Taheri and
married her. His father passed away. Soraya and Amir settled, later on they came
to know that they cannot have children. Later, he came to know the fate of
Hassan and Ali. But what really surprised Amir was the fact that Hassan was his
half-brother. Hassan was massacred by
Taliban and his all Hazara neighbours were killed. He had a son who was spared
and his name was Sohrab. Amir later went to Kabul in search of sohrab. He kills
a Taliban leader. Later found Sohrab after a lot of mischievous events and
returned to California to adopt him...
The novel
discusses lots of events which begin from Soviet intervention and then the
creation of Taliban which later on created civil war. Taliban protected the
interest of ethnic majority- Pashtun and used to suppress Minorities like
Hazaras, who were basically Shia’ muslims.
Sharia’ rules were implemented and strict punishments were given to
people especially women. The civil war destroyed the economy of Afghanistan,
creating millions of refugees and people even children dying of hunger. In one
context of the novel it is said that, In Afghanistan, obtaining death
certificate for civilians is impossible as people does not even have a Birth
certificate. After seizing
Kabul in 1996, Taliban established Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan even though
Islamic state of Afghanistan was internationally recognised. The Taliban was
created with the aim to fight Soviet Union but later on the hardcore terrorists
wanted power to suppress people’s voice as the group rejects the idea of Democracy.
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It is an
open fact that Taliban is supported by Pakistan Intelligence and ISI, along
with other organisations like Haquani Network or Lashkar-e-Toeba. They use it
as a tool to destabilise nations Including INDIA, Afghanistan and Iran. They oppose
to the idea of equality and want to impose sharia’ rules. They oppose worship
of other Gods. They blasted Lord Buddha’s Statue in HinduKush with dynamite. It
started the war against minorities and people were either massacred or forced
to leave the country. Their multi-culture system was foiled and there didn’t exist
something called harmony. In Kabul, children were taken away by Taliban police
and they were given training to become
militants. Sometimes suicide bombers. Children of Afghanistan seems to have no
hopes nor dream, they may not get proper education and nutrition rich food. They
cannot become entrepreneurs, nor seek jobs. But to run after NATO drones and
Taliban rockets...........................
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