On August 1521, Taliban armed guerrillas posed at a table decorated with President Ashraf Ghani at the Palace of the President of Afghanistan. Ironically, it depends on the wall behind them there is a Sufi Painting of Sabir Shah Shah Membantikotai Amad Shah Durrani who knelt down, who is considered the founder of modern Afghanistan. […]
Continue ReadingWhatever horrors they do, they do in secret’: inside the Taliban’s return to power
In a compound of the police headquarters in the city of Mazar-i-Sarif in North Afghanistan, a large crowd waited at the door of Wire Mesh. The entrance was guarded by a young Taliban fighters with long hair and beard, who sat in a broken plastic chair. Next to him was a large stack of shoes […]
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