Author: Uncharted Thoughts
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The Death of Charlie Kirk is a threat to all!
I have sat on this topic for a while now, thought about it extensively and tried my hardest to listen to all perspectives. Like most of us, I watched as a bullet tore through the neck of a 31 year old man as he debated in front of a college campus. Finally, I have come…
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The Silent Genocide: The Hazara Story
“We are victims because of our race.” The low humming of the extractor fan whirled overhead—something I had not noticed before. Now, it seems deafeningly loud. A small break in the silence that had formed ten minutes into my interview with Arezo. “Would you like to stop, take a break?” I asked, noticing the tears…
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Complicity in Genocide and Torture: Pakistan’s Great Remigration
“We will be given back into the hands of our fathers’ killers.” My phone buzzed, waking me from an otherwise peaceful slumber. The horrors of yesterday’s interviews with Afghan refugees were still whirling around my mind—a carousel of trauma, desperation, and resilience. I braced myself for another emotionally taxing day, one I suspected would test…
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Justice in Afghanistan: torture, rape, and humiliation without trial
Afghanistan is a country renowned for its hospitality, food, and culture. However, lingering above these celebrated stereotypes is a dark and brooding cloud of historical conflict. Known simply, and somewhat accurately, as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan’s history is soaked in blood. From the Persian Empire to the British, and now the Taliban, Afghanistan has…
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Stop Gender Apartheid: Women’s Human Rights groups plead for equality in Taliban ruled Afghanistan.
“They are afraid of our power” Women activist groups across the world have joined together in solidarity to combat the ongoing oppression of their gender in Afghanistan. Since the United States left Afghanistan in August 2021, the largely internationally condemned, tyrannical theocratic government known as the Taliban has continued to oppress its citizens under a…
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four years of terror – another year of Taliban Rule.
Today marks the four year anniversary that Afghanistan was brutally overthrown by the Taliban. A day that will live in infamy for all Afghans, and for much of the world a day that marks another example of international intervention failure. I remember turning on the TV and watching as men and women clung to the…
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An Afghan’s story: The Silent Genocide.
“I am Hazara, and I belong to Afghanistan” The rugged landscape of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is notoriously governed by the widely unrecognised government of the Taliban—a theocratic totalitarian regime that took power following the controversial withdrawal of America and her allies on August 15th, 2021. Since this bloody, undemocratic takeover, the people of…
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I spent 10 days with Afghan Refugees in Pakistan, this is what I learnt.
There are often moments in our lives that mould us in some way — a defining day, hour, or minute that changes our perspective of the world. For me, my 2025 trip to Pakistan was such a moment: a defining lesson, one that I believe the world should know about. Eight months ago, I was…
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Today I met an afghani.
As far as I am aware, I have never met a person from Afghanistan. I am sure I have encountered some in passing while walking the streets of London or through Manchester, but to my knowledge, today marked my first meaningful interaction with another people, from another land. It is strange to imagine that, 100…
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“Yours is the earth and all else in it”.
The world is a mess. It feels as though every turn you take leads to a devastating road. I often find myself worried for my family, for my friends and loved ones. I count my blessings of course. I live in a relatively free society, I have the girl of my dreams, a job, and…
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