Abstract

South Asian Anglophone literature of the current era now frequently concentrates on a great game being played by global forces. Zia Haider Rahman in his work, ‘In The Light Of What We Know’(2014) has shown this game analogizing it with a game of chess. The current game is the continuity of the past great games played by Britain and Russian empires in Central Asia. There are strong clues that prove how all the present and past great games played by global players have been aimed at attaining their monetary benefits by extorting the local assets i.e. oil and gas reservoirs. The study shows that the current game is being played in cooperation with proxies who set their own rules of the game apart from performing the assigned duties of great and local players. The study concludes that the great game in the South Asian region of Afghanistan is being played for the land and resources and not for the emancipation of the people.