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Well, I think that the public image of this guy - the 'liberated, modern' man - is something that very much exists in Afghanistan, and is something that many Afghanis were waiting to become (but were prevented from becoming by the Taliban). Asne started thinking he was a genuine representative of that group, but found things to be very different. He pursued her afterwards, attemping to sue and issuing various threats, but she stuck by everything that she wrote.
As I say, I'm very very fond of her indeed.
I agree about the light-hearted bits - she's a very gifted (and experienced) journalist, she pitches her writing with the exact balance neccessary.
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