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Lost to the World

Af: Shahbaz Taseer Engelsk Paperback

Lost to the World

Af: Shahbaz Taseer Engelsk Paperback
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Shahbaz Taseer’s memoir of his five-year-long captivity at the hands of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

In late August 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Talibanaffiliated Uzbek terrorist group. Taseer’s father, the governor of Punjab, Pakistan, had recently been assassinated for speaking in support of a Christian woman who had been accused of blasphemy and sentenced to death. Though Taseer himself wasn’t involved in politics, he was still a public figure who represented a more tolerant, internationally connected Pakistan that the IMU condemned. What followed his kidnapping was nearly five years of torture and constant peril as Taseer was held captive by the IMU in the ungoverned reaches of Pakistan and Afghanistan, his fate subject to the unpredictable whims and machinations of terrorists. Lost to the World is his memoir of that time—a story of extraordinary sorrow but also of empathy and faith.

While deeply harrowing, this tale is also about resilience. Taseer countered his
captors’ narrative of a holy war by immersing himself in the Quran in search of hope
and a means to see his own humanity under even the most inhumane conditions, and
ultimately to find a way back to his family.

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Shahbaz Taseer’s memoir of his five-year-long captivity at the hands of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

In late August 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Talibanaffiliated Uzbek terrorist group. Taseer’s father, the governor of Punjab, Pakistan, had recently been assassinated for speaking in support of a Christian woman who had been accused of blasphemy and sentenced to death. Though Taseer himself wasn’t involved in politics, he was still a public figure who represented a more tolerant, internationally connected Pakistan that the IMU condemned. What followed his kidnapping was nearly five years of torture and constant peril as Taseer was held captive by the IMU in the ungoverned reaches of Pakistan and Afghanistan, his fate subject to the unpredictable whims and machinations of terrorists. Lost to the World is his memoir of that time—a story of extraordinary sorrow but also of empathy and faith.

While deeply harrowing, this tale is also about resilience. Taseer countered his
captors’ narrative of a holy war by immersing himself in the Quran in search of hope
and a means to see his own humanity under even the most inhumane conditions, and
ultimately to find a way back to his family.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9781250872234
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1250872235
Udg. Dato: 14 nov 2023
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 209mm
Højde: 135mm
Forlag: St Martin's Press
Oplagsdato: 14 nov 2023
Forfatter(e): Shahbaz Taseer
Forfatter(e) Shahbaz Taseer


Kategori Terrorisme og væbnet kamp


ISBN-13 9781250872234


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 304


Udgave


Længde 21mm


Bredde 209mm


Højde 135mm


Udg. Dato 14 nov 2023


Oplagsdato 14 nov 2023


Forlag St Martin's Press

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