by Ahmed Rashid · Pan Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330492218
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«Taliban: The Story of the Afghan Warlords» is the historical essay by Ahmed Rashid, published by Pan Macmillan in paperback (200 pages, in English).
It analyses the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the country's ethnic and religious tensions, the role of Osama bin Laden and the interest of foreign powers in building oil and gas pipelines in Central Asia. Rashid argues that the regime cannot be reformed and that peace requires a multi-ethnic government without outside interference.
Non-fiction work originally published in 2000 as «Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia»; the present edition is from 2001.
For readers interested in the history of Afghanistan, the geopolitics of Central Asia and investigative journalism.
Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist and best-selling foreign policy author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.
