Lost to the World: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Five Years in Terrorist Captivity by Taseer, Shahbaz

Lost to the World: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Five Years in Terrorist Captivity

Shahbaz Taseer's memoir of his five-year-long captivity at the hands of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. In...
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Author: Shahbaz Taseer
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Language: English
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Lost to the World: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Five Years in Terrorist Captivity by Taseer, Shahbaz

Lost to the World: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Five Years in Terrorist Captivity

¥6,943

Lost to the World: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Five Years in Terrorist Captivity

¥6,943
Author: Shahbaz Taseer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 Taliban-affiliated 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.

Author: Shahbaz Taseer
Publisher: MCD
Published: 11/15/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.64w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780374192228


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2022 pg. 11
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 10/10/2022

About the Author
Shahbaz Taseer is a Pakistani businessman and the son of the former governor of Punjab (Pakistan) Salman Taseer. Taseer was held in captivity and was recovered from Kuchlak, Balochistan, on March 8, 2016. His kidnapping was referred to as one of the most high-profile kidnappings in Pakistan by The Guardian.

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