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The Neo-orientalist strategy of neocons1 in Afghanistan is meant to subjugate neo-orients in the name of humanitarian assistance to fulfill their exploitative politico-economic agendas. Encompassing a bucket of themes from globalization to love, from racial discriminations to the breaking of nations and from 2008 financial crisis to the incident of 9/11, Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know (2014) recounts how political motives are attained by powerful countries at the cost of statesovereignty through imperial interventions in the name of humanitarian help. The novel exposes the covert economic schema initiated by the USA after 9/11 in the guise of ‘War on Terror’ in Afghanistan. The First World’s venture in Third World countries like Afghanistan and the consequent destruction of the country’s economic, cultural and political sovereignty, clarifies how Afghanistan is a chessboard (Rahman, 2014) for the globalizers to play the game of selfinterest. In the Light of What We Know explores how neoempire attained its economic, cultural and political gains by initiating ‘European enlightenment’ project on the genesis of a ‘new humanity’ (2014). West’s failure to control Islam through Christendom caused it to introduce the fascinating mottos of political stability, transformation and institutional regulations with covert interventional designs of longstanding Orientalist Abstract: The study of Rahman’s, In The Light of What We Know, explores how Neoorientalist strategies of neocons subjugated South Asian neo-orients in the name of humanitarian help in war-afflicted Afghanistan. The global forces have reverted to the past binaric divisions of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in order to gain their economic and political interests. Using Steger (2003) and Howe’s (2002) critique of the validity of Huntington’s thesis of ‘clash of civilizations’ (1997), the study examines that in post 9/11 Afghan scenario Americans seem to be engaged in the projects of welfare and civilizing missions but are covertly securing their politico-economic motives in the region through humanitarian interventions of martial, cultural, political nature.

A Neo-Orientalist Critique of 'Humanitarian Interventions' in Afghanistan in Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know