He was an avid reader and read books of all types. He was a solitary man of nature he loved to keep quite and listen. He is said to be the best companion of Qais and much of the author's early life was spent sitting with him. Grandfather: His name was not disclosed by the author.
They decide to leave Qais's cousin, Wakeel and grandfather behind in the other part of the city. It was the Qala-e-Noborja across the Sniper mountains, a relatively calmer and peaceful place to live in. Finding it too difficult to stay in their old house, they decide to move to their father's good friend, Haji Noor Sher's home. There were snipers equipped with guns in the Kob-e-Aliabad mountains that shot anyone who ventured out alone. After a few days, fighting between the various factions took place. They were criminals, and instead of helping the people, they looted them. The Mujaheedin were not the so called "holy warriors" as the people had thought them to be. Windows and glasses had broken because of the tremendous amount of noise by firing. The roads were stained with the people's blood. The next day, they could hear the rockets firing, roaring above their homes. But they were dressed like villagers in black turbans, the traditional baggy pants called shalwar and the long, tunic-like shirts called kamiz. The author describes, "I had expected to see heroes in uniforms and shiny boots. Little did they know what they were up to they in fact asked for the Mujaheedin to arrive and drive out the Russians. It was soon clear: they were all revolting against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. In a confused state of manner, Abdul, Qais's father, jumped out of the home and joined the people. The author and his family could hear cries of "Allah-u-Akbar" from far away reverberate in the ears as if he had already heard it before. One night, the entire town of Kabul suffered power outage. He says he had always loved his grandfather, who was an educated scholar and loved to read Afghanistan in the Course of History by Mir Ghulam. Qais Akbar Omar begins with his account of life before the rise of the Taliban and the Mujaheedin in Afghanistan.
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