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165 Days: Prisoner of the Taliban [Kõva köide]

  • Formaat: Hardback, 328 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 1361 g, 22 color photos
  • Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2023
  • Kirjastus: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 076436426X
  • ISBN-13: 9780764364266
  • Formaat: Hardback, 328 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 1361 g, 22 color photos
  • Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2023
  • Kirjastus: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 076436426X
  • ISBN-13: 9780764364266
British documentary filmmaker Asad Qureshi works in the world's most dangerous places. When he set off to film secret interviews with Taliban commanders, the award-winning filmmaker found himself on the wrong end of the camera lens, with a gun at his temple and a price of 10 million US dollars on his head. Asad would spend 165 days in captivity before his family was able to pay his ransom and secure his release. The negotiations and eventual release were coordinated by Al Qaeda intermediaries. Throughout his time as a hostage, Qureshi was tortured and humiliated, as were his fellow prisoners, several of whom would not return. This is a true, first-person account of Taliban captivity in Waziristan, the dangerous border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Above all, it provides a stark reminder of the privilege of freedom.

A true first person account of Taliban captivity in Waziristan.

Arvustused

"They say truth is stranger than fiction. Asad Qureshi's account of his escape from the jaws of death certainly fits the bill. His journey into the heart of darkness, which resulted in the deaths of two of his colleagues, has all the ingredients of a Hollywood blockbuster betrayal, suspense, gripping action made all the more impressive by his honest, down-to-earth prose."  --DR SAFEER AWAN, Rector National University of Modern Languages (NUML) Pakistan A thrilling first-hand account of barbarism at the hands of monsters...a masterpiece which reveals the ghastly nature of groups whose corruption of Islam is wreaking havoc across the world. 





--TAHA COBURN-KUTAY, Business Executive "A powerful, absorbing memoir of a brave journalist lured into a terrorist trap. Accounts of captivity are not unfamiliar, yet Asad Qureshi has an iron grip on the reader's attention with a style that is so impressively raw it places this biography

head and shoulders above similar titles. His first book, this exceptionally realistic narrative is packed with emotion, giving the reader a crystal-clear picture of what its like to walk in the shoes of a human being with the constant threat of death

hanging over him. A five-star read." 





--ÄJA MOSLEH, Television Producer Harrowing, gripping, frightening and ultimately redemptive, 165 Days Prisoner of the Taliban is a haunting tale of isolation that takes the reader on a searing, soul-searching journey into the heart of evil. 





--ALAN CLARK, PR Executive

Foreword 6(1)
Preface 7(1)
Prologue 8(2)
1 The Ambush
10(15)
2 Five Years Earlier
25(6)
3 The Beginning
31(13)
4 The Journey
44(10)
5 The Torture Begins
54(12)
6 Concern at Home
66(7)
7 Our Last Steps Are Retraced
73(7)
8 The Call
80(9)
9 The A Team
89(8)
10 The Realization
97(9)
11 The Price
106(9)
12 Sherry
115(12)
13 Thoughts of Suicide
127(7)
14 Farrukh Meets Mr. Z
134(12)
15 KK's Confessions
146(9)
16 Soon You Will Hear Good News
155(8)
17 The Move
163(8)
18 The Unthinkable Happens
171(10)
19 The Humiliation
181(12)
20 The Tape
193(10)
21 Betrayal Revealed
203(11)
22 Reunited with Colonel Imam
214(8)
23 Mr. Z Sends an Envoy
222(11)
24 Proof of Life
233(11)
25 The Cat Out of the Bag
244(9)
26 Congratulations
253(12)
27 The Final Countdown
265(11)
28 The Handover
276(12)
29 The Journey Back
288(10)
30 The Reception
298(10)
Epilogue 308(4)
Afterword 312(5)
Acknowledgments 317
A protégé of famed British film director John Schlesinger, Asad Qureshi started work in the film industry in 1978 and has worked variously as assistant director, director, and producer. He was kidnapped in March 2010 in Waziristan, the dangerous border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Asad was released in September 2010 through family negotiations after 165 days of captivity. He heads up the independent production company Avant-garde Films.