He dyed his blond hair brown , wore the Pakistani local garb of shalwar kameez and engaged Taliban fighters in conversation in Urdu , which he speaks well .
The Taliban took me in an anonymous taxi from Kandahar and as we drove through a police checkpoint on the border of the large Taliban-held area , a policeman peered in through the window . I was wearing a shalwar kameez so that I wasn ' t quite so conspicuously foreign .
