Taliban Messaging Vs Afghan Reality – OpEd

The pitch made by Zabihullah Mujahid is built around an elementary trade: lived complexity must be traded by a puritanic narrative of unity, security and Islamic order. It is communication which is thus represented to have settled, the sort of placid prose which brings the neighbour to quiet down, the critic to silence, the non-believer to standardise. But it is not that he paints his side on a good side, every state does. The point is that the photo is based on the neglect of the parts of Afghanistan which still break the frame.