Abdullah Hussein, born in 1931, is an Urdu fiction with several novels, novellas and collections of short stories published in the original and in translation in Pakistan and India. His first novel was included in UNESCO’s Collection of Representative Works in World Languages in 1999. His second novel émigré journeys was published by Serpent’s Tail, London, in 2000. The Afghan Girl is about this Afghan-Scottish girl Yasmin who is a journalist. She is sent by her London newspaper to Pakistan to cover the jihad (holy war) that was being waged by the Afghan mujahideen (holy warriors) against the Soviet Union forces that had invaded and occupied Afghanistan. There she met Joe, a C.I.A. man who was financing and overseeing the jihad on behalf of the American government. An Arab mujahid blackmailed Joe to get his hands on a certain relic that which he thought was in possession of Yasmin’s father. Read excerpt of The Afghan Girl Contact author at: abdullahhusseinpk@yahoo.com