AS he lands in Pakistan, he remembers the time he spent there with Baba before leaving for America. Despite what his English professors suggest, Amir finds only clichés properly describe his reunion with Rahim Khan.
As they visit, Rahim Khan describes the rule of the Taliban. He lived for years in Baba's house in Kabul, to which Baba one day hoped to return. In the early 1990s, militant factions divide Kabul into sections. Passage between neighborhoods becomes dangerous. Though people celebrated the Taliban at first, as liberators, they eventually find that the new rule proves worse than any previous. Repeated bombing destroys baba's orphanage.
Amir offers to take Rahim Khan to America, where he might find better and newer treatments. Rahim Khan.....
