Fear and Insecurity: Women amid ‘The war on Terror’ in Afghanistan

War is one of the most dangerous exercises of influence executed by men to kill each other and still men are addressed as “Gentle Men” in intellectual and political debates at national and international level. Besides causalities of life and destruction of the survival, war produces fear and insecurity for those who survive in wars and woman is the most affected victim of contemporary wars around the world. In the contemporary context the scholarly discourse about the empowerment and liberation of woman is at the center of socio- political studies. However in recent studies the sufferings of Afghan women to some extent have been ignored; discussions, debates and research has been done on the human rights and human security; the gender dimension has been overlooked and this provides a patriarchal set of understanding the issues of women's security. The representation of people as a group masks the differences in that group1, and women is ignored. Since the year of 2001, ‘War on Terrorism in Afghanistan has produced massive violence against women that has sowed the seeds of fear and insecurity in the hearts and minds of Afghanistan women. In this framework this paper will through light on the pervasiveness of violence against women that had caused fear and insecurity and forced her to live a meaningless life in distress with human rights abuses, trauma and psychological illness. However the main focus of this paper will remain on the war on terrorism (WOT) which caused fear and insecurity in Afghanistan and the victim is woman. War sufferings and violence against women are global issues and therefore this topic is of great importance in contemporary context.