The Punishment of Virtue Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban,9781594200960

The Punishment of Virtue Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban

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ISBN13: 9781594200960
ISBN10: 1594200963
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-08-17
Publisher(s): Penguin Press HC, The
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Summary

"The Punishment of Virtue is a gripping and dramatic account of history in the making as Sarah Chayes works with Afghanis to restore their country to a semblance of order and establish democracy. This is an eye-opening chronicle that highlights the often infuriating realities of this vital front in the war on terror."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

From 1997 to 2002, Sarah Chayes served as an overseas correspondent for NPR, reporting from Paris and the Balkans, as well as covering conflicts in Algeria. When war broke out in Afghanistan in 2001, NPR sent her to report from Quetta, Pakistan, and then from inside Afghanistan, based in the southern city of Kandahar, as the Taliban fell. In 2002, she left NPR to take a position running a nongovernmental aid organization, Afghans for Civil Society, founded by Qayum Karzai. Now she has launched her own artisanal agribusiness, called Arghand. Her work as a correspondent for NPR during the Kosovo crisis earned her, together with other members of the NPR team, the 1999 Foreign Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi awards.

Table of Contents

Suicide Bombing
1(7)
Covering Crisis
8(8)
Moving in on Kandahar
16(12)
Reporting the Last Days
28(15)
The Fall of the Taliban
43(7)
The Road to Kandahar
50(8)
Taking the City by Force
58(5)
A Choice of Allies
63(13)
Dealing for the Governorship
76(8)
Kandahar, Afghan Capital
84(19)
Reporting Kandahar
103(14)
The Border
117(16)
Civil Society
133(12)
Plunder and Subsidy
145(14)
Showdown with Shirzai
159(13)
Zabit Akrem
172(6)
Military Matters
178(8)
Security
186(9)
The Coming of Islam
195(21)
How to Fire a Warlord
216(16)
Murder
232(14)
Mongol Conquests and Rebirth
246(19)
Fighting with the Pen
265(23)
Misfire
288(10)
Round Three
298(7)
Fear
305(10)
The Promotion of Vice and the Punishment of Virtue
315(5)
Mazar-I-Sherif
320(10)
Kabul
330(8)
Kandahar
338(5)
Investigation
343(9)
Cover-Up
352(11)
Notes 363(14)
Index 377

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