Ever since he was expelled from. Herat by the Taliban in 1995, Ismail Khan says he has spent his time-including three years in a Taliban jail-mulling over the best way to run the biggest city in western Afghanistan. He was its governor, and a fairly successful one, in the old days. But ten days after he re-took control of it, in the wake of the relatively bloodless uprising that forced the Taliban out, Mr Khan still has the air of a chief, not a politician.
展开▼
