What Does Life Mean to You?

Is it to live in an environment that challenges lead your way to an uncertain future? Is it to be squeezed with harsh realities and obstacles to come to believe some moments of avoidance are opportunities? Is life what goes through your head, particularly thoughts and beliefs that you develop based on realities on the ground? Is it to struggle with the challenges that your parents have cultivated for you unintentionally?

In Afghanistan, life seems to mean struggling with the waves of challenges those have come from your ancestors and will go on to your children. It is almost impossible to give a different meaning to life in this country. It is extremely exhausting to swim against these waves of challenges to avoid the uncertain future.

What could you do if it happens that you are born in Afghanistan? You may have lost your chance to swim off the waves. Should you avoid your children from falling into the waves of challenges? You must be a wise and strong human being to figure out. I am in the process of visioning a future out of these waves for my naive nieces and nephews who are not aware of being carried on by the waves of uncertain future.

My Brothers

I have lost two of my brothers during different wars in Afghanistan. Meer Ata Khan was my oldest brother who was a senior high school student when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. He did not attend his graduation ceremony. Instead, joined Ahmad Shah Massoud, the leader of the freedom fighters of Afghanistan fighting the Soviet occupiers. He had served for a few years with a group of freedom warriors called Group-e-Mutahrek. Its English translation would be the commandoes. He got killed in a battle at the top of one of the tallest mountains in the Valley of Panjshir in an early morning. Meer Ata Khan Abdullah Ayoobi was my other brother years older than me. He had an MA in Arabic Literature and Religious Studies. Upon his return back to Afghanistan in the early 1990s, he started a volunteer job with one of the social organizations, "The Union of Afghanistan Journalists" as the Director of Foreign Relations. When the Taliban took over Kabul in the mid-90s, he ha...

Why Ashraf Ghani’s peace offer to the Taliban means war?

On February 28, 2018, Ashraf Ghani presented, what many label, a “comprehensive” peace offer to the Taliban at the Kabul Process II . Since then, a web of “political analysts” have written opinion pieces in support of Ghani’s bold move thanks to his vast influential network of friends and supporters in global mass media. Quite frankly, almost every piece written is inclined to praise President Ghani for his peace offer to the Taliban, a group of ruthless terrorists engaged in terrorizing and killing innocent people since 1996. The Taliban are globally known for their facilitating role in the tragic attacks of 9/11 that horrified the world. This is, indeed, unfortunate that mainstream international media and “political analysts” have implicitly echoed a narrative most suitable to Ghani and the Taliban sympathizers while, whether intentionally or not, ignoring the other sides of the story. As expected, President Ghani has been working tirelessly to promote ...

Stanford Law School

History of Stanford Law School Stanford began offering a curriculum in legal studies in 1893, when the university engaged its first two law professors. One was Benjamin Harrison, former President of the United States, who delivered a landmark series of lectures on the Constitution. The other was Nathan Abbott, who served as head of the nascent law program. Abbott assembled a small faculty to which he imparted a standard of rigor and excellence that endures to this day. In his honor, the student with the highest academic standing in each year’s graduating class is designated the Nathan Abbott Scholar... Please visit here for more detail: http://www.law.stanford.edu/school/history/

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