Farzana is one of the survivors of a massacre by the barbaric regime of Taliban. It happened in January 9, 2001 when the savage militants of Taliban along with the Arabs and Pakistanis raided Yakaolong, a district in Bamyan province that is mostly habitant to Hazara minority. They followed the decree by their spiritual leader, Mullah Omar, who had ordered them: “Behead all men whose age is greater than 12, let it be a warning lesson for the Sadat and Hazara survivors of the Yakaolang". And they did with all mighty of cruelty: beheaded over 300 men on one day, including Farzana’s father and many of her relatives! This is little known or remembered by the world because that was the time when the US government gave $43 million to the Taliban government -shortly before 9/11 (The Guardian, Thursday February 12, 2004) and the world media were all mere spectators to the brutalities of the Taliban and Al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

We could only take 60 children of the survivors to their orphanages in Pakistan . Farzana and her sisters were of course the luckiest on that golden-wagon. A small kid of 7 years that had been badly affected by that tragedy soon emerged as a firebrand student in Watan Orhanage, and buried all those miseries and hardships with a strong commitment to work hard for a peaceful Afghanistan . This little master of computer with a magic power of drawing and good command over English language is now an icon for our children. She translates the letters that come from sponsor to children and helps the children to write back to their sponsors.

Farzana 14 is interested to become a journalist because she might be thinking to disclose the grime realities that had been inflicted upon her people by the Taliban and their brother-in creed, the Northern Alliance and never reported by the so-called free media.