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Taliban Holiday

The Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan, was bombed six months prior to my arrival.

Members of Taliban splinter group Tehreek-e-Taliban praying at a Mamoon Zai village in Orakzai.

Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

The author returns to the edge of the decimated Darra gun markets, now under Taliban control.

VBS.TV’s 2006 report on the illegal gun markets of Darra Adamkhel

This is what life has been like after the 2010 floods in the Camp Kuroona area of Pakistan.

Taliban members protest and shout anti-American slogans at the site of a US drone attack on a madrassa in a Damadola village.

Annons

A man, on orders of the local leader of Taliban splinter group Lashker-e-Islam, executes two “criminals” in Spinqamer, Pakistan.

Taliban helpers clean up after the execution.

Members of Tehreek-e-Taliban relax with a game of volleyball in Mamoon Zai village.

Hakeem Ullah Mehsud, the maybe-dead leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban, smiling at a press conference, shortly before maybe being killed by an American drone attack.

Watch Suroosh navigate Taliban strongholds and take aim with some Russian-made artillery on VBS.TV later this month.