Kite Runner film outlawed in Afghanistan

Hmmm...only in pirated copies can Afghans see this film. From the NYTimes today:

"There has long been concern about angry reaction in Afghanistan to the screen adaptation of the novel, particularly a pivotal scene in which a boy is raped. In late November, Paramount Pictures, the film studio that released “The Kite Runner,” spirited the film’s four young actors out of Kabul to the United Arab Emirates for their own safety.

Mr. Ahmadi said the novel, by the Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, had not been banned. The novel is written in English, which most Afghans cannot read."