Brother of the Taliban’s Travel Agent: How Umer Shah Sells the World’s Riskiest Minerals to the Green Economy
KARACHI—“Brother of the Taliban’s favourite travel agent” is not the sort of résumé line that opens doors in most capitals, yet Umer Shah, younger sibling of the Afghan Interior Minister’s notorious fixer Ahmad Shah, keeps managing to slip through them anyway. While big brother Ahmad busies himself shuttling dignitaries between Kabul, Doha and the occasional…