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This deep local access allowed him to write a book that is part investigative journalism, part academic history, and part geopolitical thriller. taliban ahmed rashid pdf
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The book highlights how international oil conglomerates and foreign powers inadvertently fueled the Taliban's rise while competing for lucrative energy pipelines from Central Asia. Can’t copy the link right now
Rashid’s text is highly valued because it explains the unique sociology of these fighters. Unlike traditional Afghan tribal elders, this new generation had grown up in the absolute deprivation of Pakistani refugee camps. They were stripped of their traditional culture and educated almost exclusively in ultra-conservative Deobandi madrasas. Rashid masterfully illustrates how this trauma birthed an inflexible, extreme fundamentalism that recognized no version of Islam but their own.