Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (2003) chronicles the story of Amir, the son of a wealthy merchant, living in Afghanistan, and his relationship to Hassan, his servant and friend. My favourite part of reading to Hassan was when we came across a big word that he didn’t know. I’d tease him, expose his ignorance. One time, I was reading him a Mullah Nasrudin story and he stopped me. “What does that word mean?” “Which one?” “‘Imbecile.’” “You don't know what it means?” I said grinning. […] “But it's such a common word! [...] everyone in my school knows what it means [...] Let's see. ‘Imbecile.’ It means smart, intelligent. I'll use it in a sentence for you.

Finally, in domestic affairs, forming committees with the participation of real Islamic scholars is the only way to prevent Afghan citizens from joining extremist groups. Academic institutions, mosques and the media could be a great help in curbing suicide terrorism. Acting upon such a strategy, the Ministry of Haj and Awqaf could lead the mosques and clerics in the campaign against this violent ideology.
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Date: 5- 04-2008 / /

The most unified these tribes ever become is when fighting a

common enemy. The difficulty in finding such a resolution is, in part, due to the lengthy

history of conflict. Conflict has become part of the Afghan identity. The best potential

solutions for the chronic violence that plagues Afghanistan involve the creation of a

unified nation state, a step which Afghans uniformly resist. Perhaps given the course of

recent events, Afghanistan can begin rebuilding its tattered country using the blueprints

of more unified and central nation states. If this is accomplished, one can only hope

that a sense of national community will quell many of the tribal disputes that would

[Mohammad Fahim Khairy]

The anti human and anti humanity elements are devils who never give up to kill.

  There are huge numbers of these murderers whose hands are still red with the blood of innocent Afghans across the world and spread with the help of national and international smugglers to western countries; with the money, they collected from the blood shedding and genocide of the nation and those who put hands in gloves with Russian. They sit behind their computers and write articles or criticize the actual situation of the country with non-senses or they see everything behind their previous eyeglasses. What a shame. If they have courage, they should confess what they have done to the war-torn country and its innocent people.  

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