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Starving to Death

Thanks to American humanitarianism, Afghanistan is facing the worst drought in 27 years, where about 95% of the entire Afghan population does not have access to life sustaining food.

By Imran Jan | February 2022


I have heard stories from family elders that back in the good old days, people used to vacation in Afghanistan. Newlywed couples chose Afghanistan as their honeymoon destination. It was a thriving country rich with culture, freedom, feminism, and moderate voices. Much of it was influenced by the presence of the Soviets there. All that ended abruptly with wars and invasions. Instead of thousands of tourists entering Afghanistan for vacation and tourism, a time came when thousands if not hundreds of thousands foreign troops and military hardware started entering Afghanistan for fighting and human hunting.

The funny part always has been that the fight of the invading nation was never against Afghanistan but rather against another entity that Afghanistan wasn’t necessarily home to or loyal to. But Afghanistan was perfect ground for fighting wars because it was a defenceless nation against the mighty powers that came trundling to the land of Afghanistan with all their military hardware and the trained soldiers who killed their boredom by killing innocent people. Before Afghanistan proved to be a graveyard of empires, it proved its credentials in becoming the world’s largest burial ground where many young boys and girls buried without anyone ever even acknowledging their deaths.

Millions of people in Afghanistan are on the verge of falling into a situation the world calls famine. The rest of the lucky Afghans have already escaped that situation by dying in advance. The chosen few have escaped into foreign nations where they live as Mohajirs, the very word most closely associated with Afghan nationality.

About 95% of the entire Afghan population does not have access to life sustaining food. The COVID pandemic, which has been tough everywhere, has not paused to be nice to Afghanistan. The virus doesn’t have morals or sympathy. It wants to destroy you regardless of your age, gender, nationality, location, religion, and so forth. The country is facing the worst drought in 27 years. It wasn’t easy inside Afghanistan but these factors have made it worse beyond imagination.

The United States has been trying to beat the virus that has wreaked havoc across the nation. Somewhere along the fight against the virus and in the desire to beat the virus, I am certain that the United States got the meaning of beating the virus pretty twisted. The US has beaten the virus only in its viciousness by deciding to freeze access to the billions of dollars in Afghan central bank reserves held in the US.


The last time, a similar vicious game that the United States had played was in Iraq. The sanctions against that country had caused the deaths of about a half a million children. No remorse was felt. In fact, it was said that the price was worth it. This time around, those people who had sided with the occupier of their homeland, have been ferried by air to America. So much for “the home of the brave”. A large number of newly naturalised citizens would be, for a lack of a milder word, nothing but traitors and cowards. The ones who either stood up for their nation and those who decided not to take any side have been left there to starve to death in the deadly cold of Afghanistan, which would soon be followed by an even deadlier hot summer.

Truth be told, today’s Afghanistan indeed is the home of the brave. But there is only so much that the human body can tolerate even if the will is alive long after the body has given up. The brave are braving the harsher life and the harsher times ahead. They are choosing to stay instead of running away. Chickening out is easy, which is what many did who today live comfortably in western nations. The comfort was bought with the sale of their sincerity and loyalty to their soil.

Afghanistan is a hell made by the devils. It has been converted into this ruin that it is today by decades of wars and invasions by the powerful nations who needed to test their genitals in a far flung area to avoid making their own home dirty. Even psycho human hunters keep the ground and the surrounding clean and nice for their future hunting games. The history with powerful nations has been to come to Afghanistan to fight and kill. After the human hunting was over, the country was left to rot. As if that wasn’t enough, not only was the aid stopped but also the access to Afghanistan’s own money was blocked to ensure a quick death, rivalling only the quick withdrawal from the country.

Death was a more guaranteed outcome in Afghanistan for as much as history books can remember. However, what is even sadder is that life in Afghanistan is harder than death.

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