The Deadly Dare Game of Life in Afghanistan

“The loss at last ninety minutes, indemnifying in extra time”, it is the title of a reporting article which narrates the heartbroken story of a girl in Afghanistan who pushed herself to overcome the poverty of her family, went to school with the enthusiasm while carrying the affliction of her aged father whose ragged hands is the sign of endeavors in a dry, mountainous, and a deprived village. Simply, she was aiming to cure the untold pain of her father and dreaming big for doing her part in Afghanistan’s government to callous and refine the fragile government of Afghanistan.

She graduates school with the highest ranking of GPA; teaches at the same school after her graduation for two years, and later on, after passing the public university entrance exam, she soon gets a scholarship for her bachelor studies in India which is not so common in Afghanistan to let a girl move abroad for studying. The time is counting and Najiba graduates from India, soon after her returns she was offered a job in Ministry of Mines and Petroleum of Afghanistan. Her curiosity and enthusiasm toward education have not ended with the bachelor degree, hence, she gets a scholarship for pursuing her master studies in Japan.

She successfully ends up this period of her studies and returns back to Afghanistan and gets to work back to her ex-office in a higher position. But all these endeavors come to an end within a second that is even unimaginable; the morning when she left home for work riding on her office’s bus, after some miles, a car gets crashed to the bus on which Najiba and her colleagues were sitting; the heavy voice of blast fills everywhere around, the glasses were broken, birds get silent on the sky, street gets red, the suffocating smell blows around, within this scenario, Najiba’s life turns to its end. Yes, just within a second. This is how life is a deadly dare game in Afghanistan.

This is not the only story, there are hundreds of untold stories; hundreds of Najiba are killed, lost their lives in the explosion, kidnapped, and shot. The stories which are built with toil, endeavors, and travail, but turned to the end just within a second and buried forever. Here is that the reported said that living in Afghanistan is “Loss at ninety minutes, indemnifying in extra time”, and it is a deadly dare game.

Emran Poya
June 09, 2019