This is the hardest part of the book to read. Rashid documents the systematic destruction of Afghan civil society: the ban on girls’ education, the obliteration of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the oppression of the Hazara minority, and the creation of a narcotics economy. Rashid argues that the Taliban did not stop the opium trade—they regulated and taxed it.
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia " (also published under the title " This is the hardest part of the book to read