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Nasruddin and a beggar

Kitty — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:18:08 +0000

Once a beggar knocked at the door of Nasruddin’s house. Nasruddin was in a room on the second floor. From there he asked, “Who is knocking the door?” But the poor man asked him to open the door. Nasruddin went down stairs and opened the door. He saw a beggar demanding some money. He told the beggar to follow him upstairs. Their Nasruddin said. “May God Almighty grant you money excuse me.” The beggar told him. “It is not fair. If you did not have anything to give me, you should have told me at the door.” Nasruddin replied. “Is it fair? You wanted some money. Why did you ask me to go to the door?”

Only place, but no Palaw

Kitty — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:17:01 +0000

Once Nasruddin took his students to his house and insisted they should have lunch with him. Moment later, he called his wife and ordered her to cook Palaw for the guests as soon as possible. His wife said, “You order so simply as if you have rice and ghee in the house.” Nasruddin became very angry and said: “Can’t you at least bring empty plates? His wife accepted and a few minutes later brought the plates to Nasruddin. He took the empty plates and placed them in front of the guests. “Friends!” he said, “If I had bought rice and ghee, I would have brought you an oily Palaw in these plates.”

How has the camel come?

Kitty — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:15:16 +0000

Nasruddin had a little money. He wanted to hide it some where. At first he dug a hole, kept the money there and covered it with soil. After a while he thought the money was not safe there because it would be discovered soon. He dug another hole and kept the money there. He repeated this action many times. But he was not sure of its security. He removed it out of the last hiding. He put the money into a bag and rode on a donkey taking the bag to a hilltop near his house. He fixed a stick vertically in the ground and from it suspended the bag. Looking at it from a distance Nasruddin commented, “Human being is not a bird to come here and steal the bag,” He came back home. Incidentally a man who was watching Nasruddin from a distance took the money from the bag and poured dung of camel into it. After a few days when Nasruddin was in need of cash, he went to find the bag. When he brought the bag down from the stick, he found dung of a camel in it. He got surprised and said, “It is very interesting. How could a camel reach to a place where a person can’t?”

Nasruddin’s Blanket

Kitty — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:14:32 +0000

One winter night while Nasruddin was sleeping he heard a noise that was suddenly made in the street. Having covered himself with his blanket, he came out to know the cause of the noise. Suddenly a smart thief robbed him of his blanket and ran away. He came back home without the blanket. In reply to his wife who was asking about the reason for the noise, Nasruddin said, “All the quarrel was about my blanket.”

Nasruddin’s Question

Kitty — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:13:19 +0000

One day Nasruddin, while passing by a place, had a few apricots in his sleeve. He saw some people who were sitting under a tree. Calling them he asked a question, “if any one of you found out what I have in my sleeve, I will give the biggest apricot to him.” One of them said,” If any one answers this question, he must be having prophecy.

Mullah Nasruddin (Nasiruddin)

Kitty — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:11:05 +0000

Every year Nasruddin’s day is celebrated in Turkey with great pomp and show. The age in which he lived is not exactly known. There are even doubts about the country of his birth. Iranians claim that he was from Iran. The Turks have their own claim. The latest claim is that of the Russians who say that he was born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. But he is said to be buried in Turkey. Whatever Nasruddin’s place of birth and nationality might have been, the fact remains that his anecdotes are famous all over the world.

Several Volumes of stories about Nasruddin (also called Nasiruddin) have been published in England. His stories have been published in Urdu and Pashto languages too; they are often repeated by the people. The stories of Nasruddin are popular because they deal with experiences of day-to-day life. He had been a tailor, a merchant, a doctor, a judge or a farmer, and he had traveled widely. Some of his stories, while narrating a funny situation describe a fact and serve as an advice for people.

You know you are an Afghan when…

Kitty — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:05:10 +0000

1. When you have a shoe thrown at you by your mother

2. When your family goes on a picnic every Sunday

3. When everybody is a singer in your family

4. When your parents want you to become either a doctor or an engineer, nothing else.

5. When your parents try to hook you up with your cousins

6. When your freezer is filled with nothing but MEAT

7. When you can speak more than two languages

8. When your parents call Food Basics “Basic Food” or Burger King “King Burger”

9. When you are not allowed to have boyfriends and girlfriends

10. When until the age of 6 you thought your name was “padar-naalat”

11. When your parents talk to strangers, after 15 minutes they realize that they are cousins

12. When your parents want to call you they will say every one of your 12 brothers and sisters names before they get to your name.

13. When your parents don’t realize phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, so they still scream at the top of their lungs when making long distance calls

14. Your mother does everything for you if you are a male but the females do all the housework in the family.

15. When you have at least 70 cousins

16. When you arrive 2 hours late at a party, you think it is normal.

17. When you go shopping with your parents and you see something you want, your parents complain by saying you can get it for a cheaper price at Wal-Mart.

18. When after a family meal, the women fight to the death over who should wash the dishes while the men sit on their behinds and discuss politics, waiting for their tea

19. When your parents haggle at malls trying to get a discount

20. When you spend so much money on a nice dining room table but you never eat on it

21. When you wear a t-shirt under a revealing dress at weddings

22. When you kiss 3 times when you greet someone and ask “how are you?” 11 times

23. When there’s more oil in the food than the actual food itself

24. When your mom and aunts wake up early every weekend and race to garage sales

25. When your every sentence starts with “bachemmm”

26. When you eat dinner at 11pm at night

27. When you have rice for lunch and dinner every single day

28. When you get house warming gifts you give them to some other afghan and it ends up getting passed around until it gets back to you

29. When its time to leave at a wedding you steal the flowers off the table and one flower is just not enough so your parents force you to go grab them off other tables

30. When the only song you play at a party is “Sitare-Balbali”

31. When you’re forced to wear your older brothers suits after he’s out grown them.

32. When you’re forced to buy shoes two sizes larger so they can last

33. When you try and fit 5 kids in the back of a hatchback (one on top of the other)

34. When your mom and dad don’t use their first names when calling each other

35. When your parents hate cats and dogs and forbid you to have them as pets

36. Whenever you are a guest at someone’s house, everyone follows you out to the driveway when you leave (and those who don’t get yelled at later)

37. When after you follow your guests to the driveway, another conversation continues for about 30 minutes

38. When you have 10 towels for decoration in the bathroom but you aren’t allowed to use them

39. When you carefully unwrap presents to save the wrapping paper so you can use it to re-gift later

40. When your mom or dad wears your hand-me-downs and takes your old shoes and clothes and thinks of relatives she could give it to

41. When your house phone starts ringing at 4 am in the morning from family back home

42. When you have more Indian movies than books or magazines in the house!

43. When you are sick of explaining to all foreigners that Osama Bin Ladin is not from Afghanistan.

44. When you are ALWAYS taking off and putting on your shoes wherever you go.

45. When the boys had no curfew while the girls had to be home by 6pm.

46. When your parents hate the Russians.

47. When you aren’t married and you turn 25, your parents start wringing their hands and proclaim that it’s too late.

48. When you have never met half of your extended family.

49. When you really like Afghans of the opposite sex or you can’t stand them.

50. When your mother measures wealth in gold and diamonds.

51. When your parents drink 6 cups of tea a day.

52. When your parents had eight daughters in hopes of having a son.

53. When one or both of your parents skipped at least one year of elementary school.

54. When you have cousins you have never met, whose names you don’t know, but who insist they’re related to you, even though they bear NO resemblance to anyone YOU know.

55. When your parents push the concept of an arranged marriage on you and try and demonstrate how well it works whenever they’re not fighting.

56. When your parents compare you to all of their friends’ kids.

57. When your parents tell you that they were the richest and most respected people “back home”.

58. When your older siblings always listen to your parents’ conversations.

59. When no one ever seems to call ahead of time to say they are coming over for a visit.

60. When your parents worry what other people will think if you’re not going to be a doctor, lawyer, or engineer.

61. When your parents have their own unique names for everything such as;
- Tissues =Tushis
- Barbeque = Babooqi
- Roosevelt Boulevard = Roosabaar Beeroobaar
- Video = Visio
- Blockbuster Video = Black Bastard Visio
- Liberty Park = Liability Park
- Syrup = SRDUP

62. When two or more afghan men will always talk politics with each other whereas two or more afghan women will always start their sentences with “did you know….”

63. When you have new brides coming to western countries from Afghanistan or Pakistan are always under the age of 18 but have managed to finish a University course at Kabul University five years ago.

64. When newly arrived afghan guys always become more westernized than those brought up in a western country.

65. When most Afghan guys have illusions of being black and Afghan girls have illusions of being Indian actresses.

66. When most ‘cultured’ afghan men will dress up in a suit and tie for a day out in the park.

67. When food is not worthy of eating if it is not floating in two centimeters deep in oil.

68. When a wedding was either good or bad depending on the food.

69. When it takes 10 minutes to say “hi, how are you” after you greet each other ‘properly’, you actually ask them other how they are

70. When you grow a football field of “Na-Na” (mint) in your backyard.

71. When you’re walking out of customs with your trolley at the airport and you see all twenty-five members of your family who have come to pick you up.

72. When you are told that your parents were always ranked first in school.

73. When getting a visa to s western country is like having a baby, everybody tells you “Mubaarak” and “Tabreek”

74. When you are standing next to the two largest size suitcases at the airport.

75. When you live with your parents even if you are 40 years old (And they like it that way).

76. When even if she is NOT your daughter, you always take interest in knowing whose daughter is going out with whose son and feel like it’s your duty to spread the word.

77. When the first thing you teach any non-afghan is how to curse in farsi.

78. When at least once a week your mum says, “I want to go to Kabul”.

79. When the second you pull out of someone’s driveway, your parent’s start talking about them.

80. When you always say “open the light” instead of “turn the light on”.

Siddiq Barmak

Kitty — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:41:23 +0000

Biography

Siddiq Barmak was born in Panjshir, Afghanistan, on September 7, 1962. He got his M.A degree in cinema direction from the Moscow film institut (VGIK) in the year 1987.

He has written a few screenplays and has made a few short films and also his first feature film “Osama” in Afghanistan. He was the manager of the Afghan Film governmental organization from 1992 to 1996 and after the establishment of the new government he was once again chosen to manage the Afghan film organization. All his works were banned during the time of the Taliban.

Short films:

The Wall (1983), Circle (1984), Stranger (1986), Documentary, The disaster of withering (1988), Osma (2003) Farsi

Osama, Synopsis

A 12 year old girl, her mother and a boy (spandi) have survived the repressed demonstrations launched by Afghan women at the beginning of Taliban regime. The girl and her mother work in a hospital and soon become aware that the Taliban have dismissed all the people working there and have closed its gate.

The Taliban make sure that no women can get out of their houses without a legal companion (without any member of their family). If they do so they will be punished. To support the family, the girl’s mother, who has lost her job, decides together with the girl’s Grandmother to change the appearance of the girl in order to look like a boy. This decision terrifies the girl. She is afraid of what will happen if the Taliban finds out that she is a girl. To get a job, the mother and the girl go to the milkman who was an old friend of the girl’s slain father.

The next adventures begin from here….

The religious police of the Taliban force the people to go to masque for noon prayer. The girl who is still not familiar with these regulations makes mistakes during prayer session, which then causes a Taliban to become suspicious. On the next day all boys including the girl (looking like boy) are taken to the religious school called Madrassa, which is also the center for military training by the Taliban. After some adventures the Taliban discovers the real face of the girl. The girl is put in jail. The Taliban’s judicial court, which advocates stoning and execution, force the girl to marry an old Mullah. After they are married the girl discovers that she is the Mullah’s fourth wife…

Title: Osama
Directing, Editing, Script: Siddiq Barmak
Assistant Directors: Kaveh moeinfar, Homayon paeiz, Mirvais Rekab, Razi mohebi Cinematographer: Ebrahim Ghafuri
Assistant cinematographer: Reza Sheakhi, Mehdi Amiri
Still: Vahid Ramagh
Soundmen: Behrouz Shahamat, Farokh fadai,
Sound & mix: Mastaneh Mohajer, Hussein Mahdavi
Set Designer: Akbar Meshkini
Assistant Editing: Mastaneh Mohajer
Executive manager: Siamak Alagheh band, Abubakr Atef
Script girl : Agheleh Rezaei
Music: Mohammad Reza Darwishi
Laboratory: Studio Filmsaz
Casts: Marina Golbahari, Khwaja Nader, Arif Herati, Zubaida Sahar, Hamida Refah, Gol Rahman Ghorbandi
Producer: Barmak Film with cooperates with NHK (Japan) and leBrcoquy Fraser(Ireland).

Festivals:

The first is screening at Directors’ Fortnight section of Cannes
Film Festival, France 2003.

Barmak an interview on Osama, Cannes 2003

Question: Can you talk to me about Osama, about this project, about your desire of film maker?

SB: Osama is a bitter and tragic story of our life. The worst time which nobody had his/her own way to get decision. Osama is the story about identity of those who had lost their identity under Osama’s name. Osama is the story about scare, where people are afraid of even the sounds of the shadows. Osama is the story about the permanent and endless story of women in prison. Osama is the story about a little girl and all the injustice and religious nonsense that is being carried on her shoulder. It was one of my dreams to become a film projectionist. It was my dream to find something in this dark place where there is just one line of light towards the big white screen and now I believe that this line of light can be moved towards peoples minds and make them bright, especially in our country.

Question: How did you get the idea? By your work as documentarist?

SB: When I was in Pakistan, I was looking to make a short fiction film. I was trying to find some special subjects and characters in many different Afghan organizations such as the handicapped, street children and Afghan newspapers in Peshawar. Accidentally I read a letter from an old senior Afghan teacher that told a story about a little girl who had a burning desire to attend school during the Taliban regime, while it was forbidden for girls. So she changes her appearance to look like a boy by cutting her hair and wearing the boy’s outfits. Of course, it was the story that shocked my friends and me.

Question: You were living in Afghanistan during the Taliban’s administration?

SB: When the Taliban took control of the Kabul city, after two weeks I was obliged to escape from Kabul to Pakistan first, but very soon I left Peshawar to the north of Afghanistan. I have tried to make fiction or documentary film there, but all my dreams didn’t came true due to worst conditions of my life as bitter lives of my people in war! After two and a half years once again unwillingly I migrated to Pakistan.

Question: How are you working? Do you have a special method?

SB: No doubt at first when I want to make something I always try to collect as much information as possible, especially the real experience I had in the and also people’s memory and their experiences. Regarding selecting of actors, the first two short fiction films that I made, was with non professional actors and actresses and especially children. To get them play in that way, I used many different styles and methods.

Question: What is your universe? Do you have big influences? Do you have some masters in cinema?

SB: My world is a poem about love which finds itself among the wars, smoke and dust. I love the poetry style of movie. In this case I can say the Andre Tarkovski, Sergei Parajanov,Angelo Polos Gorgain film style like Thingis Abuladza and Otar Eisilyani? of course very near to our language, Iranian film makers such as the great Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Abbas Keya Rustami.These masters have had a big influence on my way of filmmaking.

Question: How long was the shooting of Osama? Where and when did you shoot exactly? During or after the Taliban’s?

SB: More than one year was spent on the scenario. The project started from June 2002 and was completed in March 2003 in Kabul, a suburb of Kabul city after collapse of Taliban regime.

Question: You shoot with digital camera?

SB: No. It was shot by Arriflex 35 mm. B.L 4 cameras.

Question: How do you find your actors?

SB: Generally we decided to select nonprofessional actors and actresses. To find and select the main character we went to look for it in many different sections such as schools, orphanages, street children centers and refugees camps. We selected the majority of our actors and actresses from refugees camps but we found the main character (Marina) on the street.

Question: Big difficulties during shooting? And for editing?

SB: The major problem we had was finding the female actors. This is very understandable in the current situation. The other problem we had was unpredictable cold weather, especially for the first scene, sprinkling of water by machine on the women. We were not faced with any particular problem during editing because we were well prepared for the making of this film.

Question: In France we think authors and director must have real and complete control of their films. What are you thinking about this?

SB: To make a film of course every one can share their advices but one person should be the final decision maker.

Question: What is the cost of your movie? Low budget? Difficult to get the money? Difficult to produce? You made coproduction with Ireland and NHK? How was it possible?

SB: In Afghanistan it is one of the highest budget film productions. The economic situation of Afghanistan is not suitable for such a high budget production. In this regard I am really thankful of Makhmalbaf Film House that assisted us at early stages. No doubt that the synopsis of this film attracted the attention of NHK and our Irelands friends. Of course they found the theme and subject of the film very interesting.

Question: And now what is the future of Afghan cinema? You can take a big place for this & which money? Which help? Are you optimist?

SB: We have lots of things to say to our people and the world and we have a lot of talented filmmakers in our country. For this we have strong cultural bases and literature resources. To realize these dreams we need International assistance and we can now see these first steps being taken towards developing Afghan cinema. I am a big optimist about future of Afghan Cinema.

Question: What are you waiting about the selection of your film by Director’s fortnight?

SB: My expectation is and I hope our nations pain, sorrows and suffering shock the audience and change their mines and point of view about the future of the human being.

Question: Are you going to come to Cannes?

SB: Yes, of course, I want to be the messenger of aspiration and desire of Afghan Film makers in Cannes.

Iran detains 121 Afghans, foils human trafficking bid

Kitty — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:46:26 +0000

Iranian officials have foiled a major human trafficking attempt by detaining 121 Afghan nationals who had illegally entered the country, IRNA reported Sunday, quoting authorities.

Six people have also been arrested for trafficking the Afghans, who were detained from Mehriz, a border city in Iran’s Yazd province, provincial authorities said.

The officials also seized four vehicles used to transport the Afghans to Iran, a major transit point for human smuggling from Afghanistan to Europe.

According to officials, the traffickers pick poor Afghans on the pretext of better jobs and livelihood, and smuggle them to European countries through Iran.

Earlier this month, about 50 people were found dead inside a container near Quetta, the capital city of Pakistan’s Balochistan province. These people were reportedly being transported from Afghanistan to Iran via Pakistan.

With the standard of living deteriorating in Afghanistan, which is plagued by growing insurgency, people in the war-torn country are trying to flee to other countries in search of a better living.

But, most of them fall prey in the hands of human traffickers who smuggle the poor Afghans to European countries for purpose of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labour.

Source

Afghan women journalists in danger

Kitty — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:18:32 +0000

Farida Nekzad on setting up a news agency in Afghanistan

Bio

Farida Nekzad is editor-in-chief of Pajhwok News Agency, Afghanistan’s only independent news agency. A champion of press freedom and women’s rights in her country, she was recently honored with the 2007 International Press Freedom Award by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression in Toronto, Canada.

Transcript

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR: Farida Nekzad is a journalist and managing editor of Pajhwak, an independent news agency in Afghanistan. Pajhwak reaches Afghans through over 50 radio and independent television stations, providing daily news reports on local and regional issues. Like other women journalists in Afghanistan, she’s recently become the target of threats and harrassment. The murders of two women journalists in Afghanistan earlier this year underline the danger she faces. She’s visiting Canada to receive an International Press Freedom award from the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. Tell us how you founded this agency. I know just to have any independent press activity in Afghanistan is tough, but particularly for women.

FARIDA NEKZAD, AFGHAN JOURNALIST: We founded this news agency in 2004. And we produce by three language, Dari, Pashtun, English. And maximum we have per day about 40 news reports.

JAY: One of the women that was killed—I think her name was Zaki Zakizia [sic].

NEKZAD: Yeah.

JAY: And I understand it’s suspected she was killed by warlords, not by the Taliban. Is that the case?

NEKZAD: Yeah. She before warned by warlords, and they were insist that you should close and bomb your radio. Why it was? Because there was women journalists, and they have some program that woman presented. At first they start warning her by letter and says, “We’ll kill you—don’t want your radio.”

JAY: And were the warlords telling her to close down because she was criticizing the warlords? Or just because she was a woman journalist?

NEKZAD: It’s problem for women, because in that area people don’t like journalism fit for woman. And the other thing, because on that area mostly warlords live. These people are capture their lands, their home, their houses.

JAY: Are these warlords that are involved in the government?

NEKZAD: We have some of them in the Parliament, some of them in a high position.

JAY: When I was in Afghanistan in 2002, first of all they were very happy the Taliban was gone. The demand that we heard most often, over and over and over again, was that the NATO forces should disarm the warlords.

NEKZAD: You were in Afghanistan. I think you know the process of DDR. DDR mean they bring their all gun, like these kinds things, turn to the government. But it was not success, because a person have just a few old gun, and they bring to government, they shows that now we become DDR.

JAY: Is the Karzai government or NATO or the US, are they doing anything to protect the journalists in Afghanistan?

NEKZAD: Government verbally says, “We are supporting journalists, and we are with you.” Why they don’t give the information? And they’re issue a letter that nobody can give information to the journalists.

JAY: Have they investigated the killing of Zaki?

NEKZAD: No. This is the problem. Not just Zakia. If you remember, one of the news presenter, Shaima Rezayee, was killed.

JAY: She was a talk show host.

NEKZAD: Yeah. And also Shakiva Sanga.

JAY: Who was a music video host, I take it.

NEKZAD: He was on Shamshad Television as a newscaster. And there is no guarantee for life of journalists. Generally women are target, especially women journalists and women leader of journalists.

JAY: Your news agency—it must be hard to fund an agency like this. How do you fund this agency?

NEKZAD: In the beginning by help of USAID.

JAY: Taking money from the USA. Do you find that hurts you in Afghanistan? I mean, do people see the fact that you have American money? Does it make people think that the journalism might not be independent?

NEKZAD: At the beginning it was a little problem, that if the people think that we are taking money from the US, maybe we are doing it for the policy which the US want. But it was day by day it’s clear for the people that we are doing our own, because we are independent. And now mostly we are trying to be self-sufficient, because we have subscriptions and advertisements. And we have some grants from Internews, and also we have some from Open Society.

JAY: The growing strength of the Taliban in certain areas in the countryside—you were saying that some people are welcoming that because it connected with security. But what about in Kabul, in the some of the bigger cities? How do people feel about the Taliban?

NEKZAD: During the Taliban, at least people were secure. No bomb explosion, no rockets, shooting. And in the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, you see there is bomb explosion, there is suicide attack, there is murder, there is kidnap.

JAY: But the Taliban are mostly responsible for the killings and the bombings [crosstalk]. So why do people see them as the solution?

NEKZAD: Of course, but what is the job of these people that they came for the sake of taking the responsibility for there being a peaceful Afghanistan? Because of the killing, because of security, because of the many explosions that they are losing their families, relatives. So they are thinking it is better if Taliban comes. For example, some of them lost their brother in the explosion. What’s Karzai doing? What is America doing? What is the NATO doing? Because they came to bring peace in Afghanistan. But even at the center of Afghanistan, Kabul, we are not safe. In some of the area, foreign force bombardment killed childs and women. They should do carefully, because right now they lose their trust a little bit. I think you have to seriously suggest that this should stop, because these people get angry and says, “Oh, they came to bring peace? Or they came for the reason that they should bombing on our houses?”

JAY: The foreign troops, the Canadian, NATO, the Americans, do they want them to stay or to leave?

NEKZAD: With the situation going on right now, they’re happy that they should leave Afghanistan. Yeah. That’s why we we’re hearing from the people.

JAY: But I know when I was there many people didn’t want the Taliban back, but they expected there to be reconstruction. And has there been the kind of reconstruction that was promised?

NEKZAD: There is some reconstruction, but unfortunately it was not success. The company which they deal with, they did not good quality work. The reconstruction is going on, but not at the level which people were hopeful. Maybe the organization misused the money and just made a little bit by the name of reconstruction.

JAY: If you talk to analysts and people who know the situation in Afghanistan, everyone’s saying the situation is getting worse and worse. If you agree with that, what should be done? What should be the policy?

NEKZAD: Well, they should delete the criminal people, warlords, from high position, even from Parliament. The second thing, they should have some negotiation. They can bring some of the Taliban who are thinking about the future of Afghanistan. And the third one should be the money that came—where they spend? How much did they spend? How much remain? This kind of things make reconstruction, rebuilding of Afghanistan, about bringing peace in Afghanistan. Otherwise, people will lose the trust. And in the future, Afghanistan again will be destroyed by those people misuse from that.

JAY: In terms of your own personal safety, you’re going to go back now. What are you going to face?

NEKZAD: I’m hopeful that I should be able to fight again to continue my work in any situation.

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