Hidden lights of Afghanistan

Monika Bulaj is telling about her travel to Afghanistan, which began many years ago, and started from eastern borders of her homeland, Poland. She is telling about all painful impressions she had during the travel. She’s presenting all the awful conditions, in which afghan people have to live 10 years after the war. She was walking through the land full of hidden graves, were millions of people were deported or killed in 20^th century. Monika also tells about dozen of humble people she met during her travel to east for 20 years from Eastern Europe to Central Asia, trough Caucasus Mountain, Middle East, North Africa and Russia, about how she shared prayer and  bread with them. And on that way she found the “hidden lights” of Afghanistan – the prayer of “Sufi”, hated by Taliban, the Masque, were foreigner is welcomed with high respect, and met like a gift. She raises a question concerning the awareness of people, who pretend to protect this country, about the people living there, about their living conditions, about the underground girls’ school, full of scorpions, were study nearly 13,000 young girls, about villages, where the only way for people to stop their pain and hunger is the opium. Her purpose is to make this silent people to be heard by the world and mass media, which ignore all small wars and awful things happening there. Her aim is to show the world the “Hidden lights of Afghanistan”, reality, that is ignored by profits of global conflict.

Lets first consider advantages of presentation of the article. Concerning the clarity of the article, Monika presents the life conditions of Afghan people clearly, as she became some part of it, traveling and analyzing them along 20 years of her life. The article is strongly connected, relevant to the question she arises "What we know about...?”. She clearly stated the purpose of the article, which is to make people aware about all this stuff. She settles the above mentioned question and presents conditions as an answer to it. There's logic in article, as it really makes sense. But, there are some gaps in this presentation, as scarce of more detailed and precise information. She mentions about the opium in Afghanistan, but she tells nothing about the fact that according to statistical data in 2007, 92% of opium on the World market is originated in  Afghanistan, which export gives approximately $4 billion. Accordingly arises a question "Why, even having such condition, Afghan people still have life standards, presented to us?". And here we have a gap of depth and breadth, as she's not taking into account the other complex problems in the question, and considering other points of view. As we see, disadvantages here are much more then advantages.