A Nation Imprisoned: Afghanistan under the Taliban

The emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan's political landscape and their consequent swooping rise to power not only transformed the intellectual, political and social structures of the landlocked South Asian state, but also left its impact on the relations of the war-ravaged country with its neighbors and other countries of the world. The present book is an attempt to shed light on the Taliban's nature and features. Indeed, research about the Taliban is a gigantic task, for the seminary students (as their names, Taliban, indicates) virtually blocked every possible way to any attempt to ascertain their nature and features. They closed down almost all the mass media, particularly the television while the only state-run electronic media, Radio Sharia, aired its programs only for few hours a day. Attempts have been made in the present book to depict a clear picture of the state established by the Taliban through relying on the materials published by the Taliban themselves in Pakistan as well as the authentic sources published about them in other parts of the world.

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SADRODIN MOOSAVI (PhD, Political Science) is an Assistant Professor, teaching Political Thought in Islam as well as English for Special Purposes. He is also interested in the regional and international developments, particularly those pertaining to the Persian Gulf and the Middle East.

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The emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan's political landscape and their consequent swooping rise to power not only transformed the intellectual, political and social structures of the landlocked South Asian state, but also left its impact on the relations of the war-ravaged country with its neighbors and other countries of the world. The present book is an attempt to shed light on the Taliban's nature and features. Indeed, research about the Taliban is a gigantic task, for the seminary students (as their names, Taliban, indicates) virtually blocked every possible way to any attempt to ascertain their nature and features. They closed down almost all the mass media, particularly the television while the only state-run electronic media, Radio Sharia, aired its programs only for few hours a day. Attempts have been made in the present book to depict a clear picture of the state established by the Taliban through relying on the materials published by the Taliban themselves in Pakistan as well as the authentic sources published about them in other parts of the world.