BOOK REVIEW: Humanising the monster —by Dr Mohammad Taqi

My life with the Taliban, By Abdul Salam Zaeef

Courtesy to "Daily Times" 

Translated from Pashto and edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn
Hurst/Columbia University Press; Pp 331

In his foreword to Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef’s book, Professor Barnett Rubin of New York University sets the stage for the launch, ostensibly, of a refreshingly authentic work of this inaccurate and revisionist take on contemporary Afghan...