TALIBAN

Taliban

Taliban

Introduction

The Taliban is a religious and military movement that seized control of large portions of Afghanistan in the mid-1990s. While the Taliban was initially seen as a stabilizing force in war-torn Afghanistan, the movement's embrace of a radical form of Islam quickly made it a pariah in the international community. The Taliban's hosting of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda eventually led to its downfall in late 2001, following military strikes by the United States (Rohde, 2001).

Most of the Taliban fighters belonging to the ethnic Pashtuns who are concentrated in areas of northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, and they support the Taliban in Afghanistan, many of whom fled Afghanistan after the ousted from power in late 2001.There is widespread support for the use of extreme tactics among the ordinary fighters. When the interviewer asked pointedly about the use of suicide bombers, the Taliban was uniformly consistent.

History

In 1992, after the fall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan backed by the Soviet Union worsened the situation in Afghanistan became worst In spring, 1994, commonly News abduction and rape of two girls when one of the control points of an Afghan factions warring in the village, "Sang-Hissar" near the city, " Kandahar "and grew to Mullah Mohammad Omar, news of kidnapping of two girls motion, the strength of 30 men and seek with the whole night to rid the two girls has been successful in the clearance process and in turn suspended the commander of the kidnapping and rape at the gallows.

Fled Mullah Omar after the incident of " Balochistan ", and re-emerged again in Afghanistan in the fall but this time it was armed with 1,500 armed men and the objective of this gear was to provide protection for convoys of traders Pakistanis to cross the Afghan territory, through to Turkmenistan, but that the reports were stating that these convoys were not only fighters, Pakistani Taliban Kqguat anonymous. This, the Taliban has received material support, Atadaa, and the necessary training of Pakistanis (Amin , 2008).

After being able to control in and around Kandahar, the Taliban attacked Ismail Khan's forces stationed in the west of the country and gained control of the town, “Herat "in the September 5th of 1995. In the winter the same year, surrounded the Taliban capital, " Kabul "and fired rockets on the city and cut off trade routes leading to the city of Kabul, summoned by the President of Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's rival to stop fighting with each other and unite against the common enemy of the Taliban. In September 26th of 1996, Hekmatyar and Rabbani left Kabul, the capital and headed north, and a departure for them lies in the hands of the Taliban, which took over the reins in the capital and established the Emirate of Afghanistan Islamic (Carlotta, 2010).

At best, recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government in Afghanistan, followed by Saudi Arabia in the next day and the last confessors of the Taliban as the legitimate representative of Afghanistan was the United Arab ...