The Taliban regime's effort to rally world Muslim opinion behind it by projecting the vandalism at Bamiyan and the large-scale destruction of artefacts in other parts of the
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
Yale University Press, US & UK, 2000
ISBN 0-300-08340-8
USD 27.95
How did a ragtag bunch of
On 8 April, the United Nations Security Council condemned the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan for a whole host of misdemeanours—for continuing its military offensives in the country's
The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan
by Peter Marsden
Oxford University Press, Karachi/Zed Books, London & New York, 1998
pp x+162, PKR 395
Afghans have known nothing but awar for the past 17 years. They have always been afraid—afraid of the Afghan secret police, of the Soviets, of the mujahideen, of land
In the side street of Kabul, the angry crowd had been gathering since nightfall. Daggers drawn, they advanced menacingly up to the gates of the mission. Taking cover of darkness,
