Sana Haroon is an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences department of the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi. Her book, Frontier of faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan borderland, was published by Columbia University Press, 2007.
That the guardians of women's virtue should present a direct threat to it, encapsulates the essential paradox of popular opinion about the Taliban movement in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, says Sana Haroon.