'At last, a familiar sight: we drive past a Johnson & Johnson factory. "This place can't be that bad," I tell myself. "Daniel Pearl was executed near here," the driver says unprompted. "Do you want to see where?"' - Shiraz Maher comes face to face with the Taliban 

ALEXANDER MELEAGROU-HITCHENS

Earlier this week, a newly founded jihadist media group, the al-Balagh Islamic Centre, released an interview with Siraj Haqqani, leader of the Haqqani Network, a Taliban group operating in east