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Written by the area’s ‘best and bravest reporter’ (Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair), Ahmed Rashid’s Taliban - one of the first books to shed light on the murky world of Afghanistan’s religious warriors - became a New York Times bestseller when it was originally published.
1 .5 million copies later, Rashid has updated his classic work, ensuring that ‘the best book on the Taliban’ (Foreign Affairs) remains the authoritative account.
Rashid, who has covered Afghanistan’s internal strife for more than twenty years, living and travelling with the Taliban, explains the movement’s rise to power, and its impact on Afghanistan and the region. In this edition, he brings the story up to the present day, including the American-led invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban’s reorganization across the border in Pakistan, its changing relationship with Al Qaeda, and the Obama administration’s attempts to deal with the increasingly-deadly ‘Af-Pak’ problem. Taliban remains the one indispensable guide to the shadowy group behind the most high-profile conflict of our times.
Contents: Part 1: History of the Taliban Movement: Kandahar 1994: The Origins of the Taliban • Herat 1995: God’s Invincible soldiers • Kabul 1996: Commander of the faithful • Mazar-e-Sharif 1997: Massacre in the North • Bamiyan 1998-99: The Never-ending war • Part 2: Islam and the Taliban: Challenging Islam: The new-style fundamentalism of the Taliban • Secret Society: the Taliban’s political and military organizationA vanished gender: women, children and taliban culture • High on heroin: drugs and the taliban economy • Global jihad: The Arab-Afghans and Osama Bin Laden • Part 3: The New Great Game: Dictators and oil barons: The taliban and central Asia, Russia, turkey and Israel • Romancing the Taliban 2: The Battle for pipelines 1994-96 • Romancing the Taliban1: The battle for pipelines 1997-99- The USA and the taliban Master r Victim : Pakistan’s Afghan War • Shia Versus Sunni: Iran and Saudi Arabia • Conclusion: The future of Afghanistan • The Taliban Resurgent 2000-2009 • Appendices • Notes • Index
ISBN - 9781848854468
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Pages : 340
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