Pakistan, June 7 -- Since trading the battlefield for Afghanistan's halls of power, some Taliban members have also swapped their weapons for pens to tell their version of the 20-year conflict with Western forces, who they accuse of distorting "reality".
A flood of books has been written, mostly from a Western perspective, about the war between the US-led forces that invaded Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11 attacks until the Taliban's return to power in 2021.
But in the years since, a proliferation of writings by Taliban figures - praising their exploits and the achievements of the "Islamic Emirate" - is now the reigning narrative in Afghanistan.
"No matter what foreigners have written. they have largely ignored the reality of ...