Abdur Rahman Khan

And In The Kite Runner, he comes out very clearly and boldly and says that these are the atrocities that the Pashtuns have committed, for which he should be admired for his openness and for his courage to do that.

But at the same time, when it comes to talking about the Hazaras, the novel fails to rise above this this narrative, this main narrative that was created by Abd al-Rahman Khan, the king who massacred, or ordered to massacre 60% of the Hazaras.

During King Abd al-Rahman's time, there was a narrative that the Hazaras are infidels, they're not Muslims.

Therefore, they should be, you know, they should be killed.

Until the present Amir appeared to claim the Afghan throne, after the ex-Amir Yaqub Khan was deported to India where he is now a state prisoner, the policy of the British government has been, on the Afghan throne becoming vacant, to allow the claimants to it to take the field, without any interference from us, and settle the matter by force of arms, thus involving the country in all the horrors of civil war.

The near approach of Russia towards our frontier, and the part she took in our quarrel with the late Sher Ali, resulting in the Second Afghan War, and the occupation of Kabul and Kandahar by our armies, rendered it necessary for us to strongly support the present Amir Abdul Rahman against his cousin, Mohammed Ayub Khan, the brother of the ex-Amir.

We therefore made over the country to Abdulrahman and supported him with large subsidies of money as well as munitions of war, which enabled him to firmly seat himself on the throne after a brief struggle with his cousin for the possession of Kandahar.

since then he has raised a regular army estimated to number sixty thousand men of all arms and we have lately sent him from india some rifles and a siege train to be placed in the fortifications of the right Under these circumstances, on Abdulrahman's death, it cannot be supposed for a moment that we are quietly to stand aside and permit the ex-Amir's family to renew the struggle for the throne with the heir of the Amir, whose power we have just firmly established.