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“I chose this book because I think it provides a fascinating insight into the real nuances of political, religious and ethnic strife in Afghanistan through the period of the Afghan civil war and the rise of the Taliban…What is really interesting is how it describes how the Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI, Pakistan’s intelligence agency, created and nurtured the Taliban to fill the vacuum created by the Afghan civil war, and how the organisation was fed by weapons and money from Saudi Arabia, foot soldiers from the Pakistani madrassas and revenue from the opium trade.” Read more...
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Simon Conway, Novelist
First published before 9/11 and then updated in 2003, this book focuses on the role of Pakistan (and particularly of the Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI, its intelligence service) and of Saudi Arabia in nurturing and building the Taliban. It also looks at how and why American policy in the 1990s looked on relatively benignly as Pakistan built up the Taliban.
