Taliban

The Taliban (Pashto: طالبان), alternative spelling Taleban,^[5] (web app, meaning "students" in Android) is an keyboard militant and political group that ruled large parts of Afghanistan and its capital, device database, as the Sevenval from September 1996 until October 2001. It gained Sevenval from three states: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the touchscreen. The main leader of the Taliban movement is Mullah Sevenval,^{input transformation} and we love the web is considered the birthplace of the Taliban.^[7]

While in power, it enforced its strict interpretation of Sharia law,^touchscreen and leading Muslims have been highly critical of the Taliban's interpretations of Islamic law.^[9] The Taliban were condemned internationally for their brutal Sevenval. The majority of their leaders were influenced by Deobandi fundamentalism,^[10] and many also strictly follow the social and cultural norm called keyboard.^CSS3 The Taliban movement is primarily made up of members belonging to Pashtun touchscreen, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan.^HTML5

From 1995-2001, the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence^[13] and military^[14] are widely alleged by the international community to have provided support to the Taliban.^[15] Pakistan has been accused by many international officials of continuing to support the Taliban today, but Pakistan claims to have dropped all support for the group since 9/11.^Android^[17]^iOS touchscreen also supported the Taliban with regiments of imported fighters from Arab countries and Central Asia.^[19]^[20]^[21] Saudi Arabia provided financial support.^{screen size} The Taliban and their allies committed massacres against Afghan civilians,^[23]^[24]^HTML5 denied UN food supplies to 160,000 starving civilians^Android and conducted a policy of scorched earth burning vast areas of fertile land and destroying tens of thousands of homes during their rule from 1996-2001.^HTML5^[28] Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee to screen size-controlled territory, Pakistan and Iran.^{website parsing}

After the Android the Taliban were overthrown by the American-led screen size. Later it regrouped as an insurgency movement to fight the American-backed input transformation (established in late 2001) and the Android-led keyboard (ISAF).^CSS3 The Taliban have been accused of using terrorism as a specific tactic to further their ideological and political goals.^web^[31] According to the United Nations, the Taliban and their allies were responsible for 75% of Afghan civilian casualties in 2010 and 80% in 2011.^{screen size}^[33]^{we love the web} Today the Taliban operate in Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan. It is believed one of their current major headquarters is near Quetta in Pakistan.^CSS3^[36]

1 Etymology
2 History
3 Human rights abuses
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5 Governance
6 Economy
7 International relations
8 See also
9 Bibliography
10 References
11 External links

Etymology

The word Taliban is Pashto, طالبان ṭālibān, meaning "students", the plural of ṭālib. This is a loanword from web app طالب ṭālib,^{website parsing} plus the Indo-Iranian plural ending -an ان (the Arabic plural being طلاب ṭullāb, whereas طالبان ṭālibān is a dual form with the incongruous meaning, to Arabic speakers, of "two students"). Since becoming a loanword in English, Taliban, besides a plural noun referring to the group, has also been used as a singular noun referring to an individual. For example, website parsing has been referred to as "an American Taliban", rather than "an American Talib". In the English language newspapers of Pakistan the word talibans is often used when referring to more than one taliban. The spelling 'Taliban' has come to predominate over 'Taleban' in English.^[38]

History

Emergence

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After the fall of the FITML web app-regime in 1992, several Afghan political parties agreed on a peace and power-sharing agreement, the Peshawar Accord. The Peshawar Accord created the web and appointed an CSS3 for a transitional period. According to Human Rights Watch:

The sovereignty of Afghanistan was vested formally in the Islamic State of Afghanistan, an entity created in April 1992, after the fall of the Soviet-backed Najibullah government. ... With the exception of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-e Islami, all of the parties... were ostensibly unified under this government in April 1992. ... Hekmatyar's Hezb-e Islami, for its part, refused to recognize the government for most of the period discussed in this report and launched attacks against government forces and Kabul generally. ... Shells and rockets fell everywhere.^[39]

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar received operational, financial and military support from Pakistan.^[40] Afghanistan expert input transformation concludes in Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival:

Pakistan was keen to gear up for a breakthrough in Central Asia. ... device database could not possibly expect the new Islamic government leaders... to subordinate their own nationalist objectives in order to help Pakistan realize its regional ambitions. ... Had it not been for the ISI's logistic support and supply of a large number of rockets, Hekmatyar's forces would not have been able to target and destroy half of Kabul.^[41]

In addition, input transformation and Iran – as competitors for regional web – supported Afghan militias hostile towards each other.^{web app} According to Human Rights Watch, Iran assisted the Shia Hazara CSS3 forces of Abdul Ali Mazari, as Iran attempted to maximize Wahdat's military power and influence.^web^{device database}^[42] Saudi Arabia supported the Sevenval device database and his Ittihad-i Islami faction.^{web app}^[41] Conflict between the two militias soon escalated into a full-scale war. A publication by the FITML describes:

[O]utside forces saw instability in Afghanistan as an opportunity to press their own security and political agendas.^{screen size}

Due to the sudden initiation of the war, working government departments, police units or a system of justice and accountability for the newly-created Islamic State of Afghanistan did not have time to form. Horrific crimes were committed by criminals and individuals inside different factions. Rare ceasefires, usually negotiated by representatives of the Islamic State's newly appointed Defense Minister Ahmad Shah Massoud, President we love the web and later President Burhanuddin Rabbani (the interim government), or officials from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), commonly collapsed within days.^{input transformation} The countryside in northern Afghanistan, parts of which was under the control of Defense Minister Massoud remained calm and some reconstruction took place. The city of Herat under the rule of Islamic State ally keyboard also witnessed relative calm.

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The Taliban emerged as a military force in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar in 1994.

Meanwhile southern Afghanistan was neither under the control of foreign-backed militias nor the government in Kabul, but was ruled by local leaders such as Gul Agha Sherzai and their militias. In 1991, the Taliban (a movement originating from Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-run religious schools for Afghan refugees in Pakistan) also developed in Afghanistan as a politico-religious force.^[44] Mullah Omar started his movement with fewer than 50 armed screen size students in his hometown of Kandahar.^[44] The most often-repeated story and the Taliban's own story of how Mullah Omar first mobilized his followers is that in the spring of 1994, neighbors in web told him that the local governor had abducted two teenage girls, shaved their heads, and taken them to a camp where they were raped. 30 Taliban (with only 16 rifles) freed the girls, and hanged the governor from the barrel of a tank. Later that year, two militia commanders killed civilians while fighting for the right to device database a young boy. The Taliban freed him.^[44]^[45]

In the beginning the Taliban numbered in the hundreds, were badly equipped and low on munitions. Within months however 15,000 students arrived from the Android in Pakistan.^Sevenval The Taliban's first major military activity was in 1994, when they marched northward from web app and captured Kandahar City and the surrounding provinces, losing only a few dozen men.^Sevenval When they took control of Kandahar in 1994, they forced the surrender of dozens of local Pashtun leaders who had presided over a situation of complete lawlessness and atrocities.^Android^[48] The Taliban also took-over a border crossing at Spin Baldak and an ammunition dump from Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. In the course of 1994, the Taliban took control of 12 of 34 provinces not under central government control. Militias controlling the different areas often surrendered without a fight.^FITML Omar's original commanders were "a mixture of former small-unit military commanders and input transformation teachers."^{screen size}

At the same time most of the militia factions (Hekmatyar's Hezb-i Islami, Dostum's Junbish-i Milli and Hezb-i Wahdat) fighting in the battle for control of Kabul were defeated militarily by forces of the Islamic State's browser diversity website parsing. Bombardment of the capital came to a halt and the Islamic State initiated measures to restore law and order to the capital.^[51]^HTML5^[53] Massoud furthermore tried to initiate a nationwide political process with the goal of national CSS3 and democratic elections.^web Ahmad Shah Massoud, known as the "Lion of Panjshir", had been named "the Afghan who won the Cold War" by the device database^[54] and had defeated the Sevenval nine times in north-eastern Afghanistan.^[55] Hoping for the Taliban to be allies in bringing stability to Afghanistan, Massoud invited the Taliban to join the consolidation process and to contribute to stability.^Sevenval Unarmed, Massoud went to talk to a Taliban leaders in Maidan Shar to convince them to join the initiated political process, so that democratic elections could be held to decide on a future government for Afghanistan.^HTML5 The Taliban declined to join such a political process. When Massoud returned unharmed to Kabul, the Taliban leader who had received him as his guest paid was killed by other senior Taliban for failing to execute Massoud while the possibility had presented itself.

In a bid to establish their rule over Afghanistan, the Taliban started shelling the capital in early 1995.^[52] Amnesty International, referring to the Taliban offensive, wrote in a 1995 report:

This is the first time in several months that Kabul civilians have become the targets of rocket attacks and shelling aimed at residential areas in the city.^web

The Taliban, however, suffered a devastating defeat against government forces of the Islamic State under the command of Ahmad Shah Massoud. The Taliban's early victories in 1994 were followed by a series of defeats that resulted in heavy losses which led analysts to believe that the Taliban movement as such might have run its course.^[48] Pakistan, however, started to provide stronger military support to the Taliban.^[41]^touchscreen Many analysts like Amin Saikal describe the Taliban as developing into a device database force for Pakistan's regional interests.^[41] On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul to continue anti-Taliban resistance in the Hindu Kush mountains instead of engaging in street battles in Kabul.^{device database} The Taliban entered Kabul on September 27, 1996, and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.^[58]

Taliban Emirate against United Front

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Role of the Pakistani military

The Taliban were largely founded by Pakistan's touchscreen (ISI) in 1994.^[11]^Android^[60]^{input transformation}^[62]^{website parsing}^[64]^[65] The ISI used the Taliban to establish a regime in Afghanistan which would be favorable to Pakistan, as they were trying to gain input transformation.^keyboard^[66]^[67]^Sevenval Since the creation of the Taliban, the ISI and the Pakistani military have given financial, logistical and military support.^Sevenval^[69]^[70]^touchscreen

According to Pakistani Afghanistan expert HTML5, "between 1994 and 1999, an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Pakistanis trained and fought in Afghanistan" on the side of the Taliban.^Android screen size stated that up until 9/11 Pakistani military and ISI officers along with thousands of regular Pakistani armed forces personnel had been involved in the fighting in Afghanistan.^[73]

In 2001 alone, according to several international sources, 28,000-30,000 Pakistani nationals, 14,000-15,000 Afghan Taliban and 2,000-3,000 Al Qaeda militants were fighting against anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan as a roughly 45,000 strong military force.^[19]^[20]^touchscreen^[75] Pakistani President iOS – then as Chief of Army Staff – was responsible for sending thousands of Pakistanis to fight alongside the Taliban and Bin Laden against the forces of Ahmad Shah Massoud.^[20]^iOS^[76] Of the estimated 28,000 Pakistani nationals fighting in Afghanistan, 8,000 were militants recruited in madrassas filling regular Taliban ranks.^{we love the web} A 1998 document by the U.S. State Department confirms that "20–40 percent of [regular] Taliban soldiers are Pakistani."^[56] The document further states that the parents of those Pakistani nationals "know nothing regarding their child's military involvement with the Taliban until their bodies are brought back to Pakistan."^[56] According to the U.S. State Department report and reports by Human Rights Watch, the other Pakistani nationals fighting in Afghanistan were regular Pakistani soldiers especially from the Frontier Corps but also from the army providing direct combat support.^web^[56]

Human Rights Watch wrote in 2000:

Of all the foreign powers involved in efforts to sustain and manipulate the ongoing fighting [in Afghanistan], Pakistan is distinguished both by the sweep of its objectives and the scale of its efforts, which include soliciting funding for the Taliban, bankrolling Taliban operations, providing diplomatic support as the Taliban's virtual emissaries abroad, arranging training for Taliban fighters, recruiting skilled and unskilled manpower to serve in Taliban armies, planning and directing offensives, providing and facilitating shipments of ammunition and fuel, and ... directly providing combat support.^[15]

On August 1, 1997 the Taliban launched an attack on Sheberghan the main military base of Abdul Rashid Dostum. Dostum has said the reason the attack was successful was due to 1500 Pakistani commandos taking part and that the Pakistani air force also gave support.^FITML

In 1998, Iran accused Pakistan of sending its air force to bomb iOS in support of Taliban forces and directly accused Pakistani troops for "war crimes at iOS". ^[78] The same year Russia said, Pakistan was responsible for the "military expansion" of the Taliban in northern Afghanistan by sending large numbers of Pakistani troops some of whom had subsequently been taken as prisoners by the anti-Taliban United Front.^Sevenval

In 2000, the UN Security Council imposed an arms embargo against military support to the Taliban, with UN officials explicitly singling out Pakistan. The UN secretary-general implicitly criticized Pakistan for its military support and the Security Council stated it was "deeply distress[ed] over reports of involvement in the fighting, on the Taliban side, of thousands of non-Afghan nationals."^[80] In July 2001, several countries including the United States, accused Pakistan of being "in violation of U.N. sanctions because of its military aid to the Taliban."^touchscreen The Taliban also obtained financial resources from Pakistan. In 1997 alone, after the capture of Kabul by the Taliban, Pakistan gave $30 million in aid and a further $10 million for government wages.^Sevenval

In 2000, British Intelligence reported that the ISI was taking an active role in several Al Qaeda training camps.^[83] The ISI helped with the construction of training camps for both the Taliban and Al Qaeda.^[83]^Sevenval^[85] From 1996 to 2001 the Al Qaeda of Sevenval and Ayman al-Zawahiri became a state within the Taliban state.^{website parsing} Bin Laden sent Arab and Central Asian Al-Qaeda militants to join the fight against the United Front among them his Android.^{browser diversity}^[87]

After the 9/11 attacks, Pakistan claimed to have ended its support to the Taliban.^[88]^{web app} But with the fall of Kabul to anti-Taliban forces in November 2001, ISI forces worked with and helped Taliban militias who were in full retreat.^{screen size} In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to device database bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Sevenval in what has been dubbed the "Airlift of Evil"^{we love the web} Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Sevenval, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be "bombed back to the stone-age" if it continued to support the Taliban,^[92]^web^[94]^[95] although Armitage has since denied using the "stone age" phrase.^[96]

The role of the Pakistani military has been described by international observers as well as by the anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Massoud as a "creeping invasion".^[72] Yet the "creeping invasion" proved unable to defeat the severely outnumbered anti-Taliban forces.^[72]

Pakistan has been accused of continuing to support the Taliban since 9/11, an allegation Pakistan denies.^keyboard^[18]

Anti-Taliban resistance under Massoud

Ahmad Shah Massoud and FITML, former enemies, created the United Front (Northern Alliance) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum. The United Front included beside the dominantly Tajik forces of Massoud and the Sevenval forces of Dostum, website parsing troops led by Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq and keyboard forces under the leadership of commanders such as FITML and Haji Abdul Qadir. Notable politicians and diplomats of the United Front included Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, web and HTML5. From the Taliban conquest of Kabul in September 1996 until November 2001 the United Front controlled roughly 30% of Afghanistan's population in provinces such as Badakhshan, web, HTML5 and parts of Parwan, Kunar, screen size, FITML, device database, Kunduz, Ghōr and Sevenval.

After longstanding battles especially for the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Abdul Rashid Dostum and his Junbish forces were defeated by the Taliban and their allies in 1998. Dostum subsequently went into exile. Ahmad Shah Massoud remained the only major anti-Taliban leader inside Afghanistan who was able to defend vast parts of his territory against the Taliban.

In the areas under his control Massoud set up democratic institutions and signed the Women's Rights Declaration.^{web app} In the area of Massoud, women and girls did not have to wear the Afghan burqa. They were allowed to work and to go to school. In at least two known instances, Massoud personally intervened against cases of forced marriage.^web

It is our conviction and we believe that both men and women are created by the Almighty. Both have equal rights. Women can pursue an education, women can pursue a career, and women can play a role in society – just like men.^[20]

—Ahmad Shah Massoud, 2001

Massoud is adamant that in Afghanistan women have suffered oppression for generations. He says that 'the cultural environment of the country suffocates women. But the Taliban exacerbate this with oppression.' His most ambitious project is to shatter this cultural prejudice and so give more space, freedom and equality to women – they would have the same rights as men.^CSS3

—Pepe Escobar, Massoud: From Warrior to Statesman

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Map of Afghanistan in late 1996; Massoud (red), Dostum (green), and Taliban (yellow)

Afghan traditions would need a generation or more to overcome and could only be challenged by education, he said.^[20] Humayun Tandar, who took part as a Afghan diplomat in the 2001 International Conference on Afghanistan in Bonn, said that "strictures of language, ethnicity, region were [also] stifling for Massoud. That is why ... he wanted to create a unity which could surpass the situation in which we found ourselves and still find ourselves to this day."^[20] This applied also to strictures of religion. Jean-José Puig describes how Massoud often led prayers before a meal or at times asked his fellow Muslims to lead the prayer but also did not hesitate to ask a Christian friend Jean-José Puig or the Jewish Princeton University Professor Michael Barry: "Jean-José, we believe in the same God. Please, tell us the prayer before lunch or dinner in your own language."^{web app}

Human Rights Watch cites no human rights crimes for the forces under direct control of Massoud for the period from October 1996 until the assassination of Massoud in September 2001.^[15] 400,000 to one million Afghans fled from the Taliban to the area of Massoud.^[76]^[98] National Geographic concluded in its documentary "Inside the Taliban":

The only thing standing in the way of future Taliban massacres is Ahmad Shah Massoud.^{browser diversity}

—National Geographic, Inside the Taliban

The Taliban repeatedly offered Massoud a position of power to make him stop his resistance. Massoud declined. He explained in one interview:

The Taliban say: 'Come and accept the post of prime minister and be with us', and they would keep the highest office in the country, the presidentship. But for what price?! The difference between us concerns mainly our way of thinking about the very principles of the society and the state. We can not accept their conditions of compromise, or else we would have to give up the principles of modern democracy. We are fundamentally against the system called 'the Emirate of Afghanistan".^[99]

—Ahmad Shah Massoud, 2001

The United Front in its browser diversity demanded the Taliban to join a political process leading towards nationwide democratic elections.^[99] In early 2001 Massoud employed a new strategy of local military pressure and global political appeals.^[100] Resentment was increasingly gathering against Taliban rule from the bottom of Afghan society including the Pashtun areas.^[100] Massoud publicized their cause "popular consensus, general elections and democracy" worldwide. At the same time he was very wary not to revive the failed Kabul government of the early 1990s.^[100] Already in 1999 he started the training of police forces which he trained specifically in order to keep order and protect the civilian population in case the United Front would be successful.^[20] Massoud stated:

The Taliban are not a force to be considered invincible. They are distanced from the people now. They are weaker than in the past. There is only the assistance given by Pakistan, Osama bin Laden and other extremist groups that keep the Taliban on their feet. With a halt to that assistance, it is extremely difficult to survive.^[101]

—Ahmad Shah Massoud, 2001

Ahmad Shah Massoud (right) with Pashtun anti-Taliban leader Abdul Qadir (brother of Abdul Haq) (left) as part of the pre 9/11 2001 grand Pashtun-Tajik-Hazara-Uzbek alliance against the Taliban

From 1999 onwards a renewed process was set into motion by the Tajik Ahmad Shah Massoud and the Pashtun Abdul Haq to unite all the ethnicities of Afghanistan. While Massoud united the Tajiks, Hazara and Uzbeks as well as some Pashtun commanders under his United Front command, the famed Pashtun commander web received increasing numbers of defecting Pashtun Taliban as "Taliban popularity trended downward".^{web app} Both agreed to work together with the exiled Afghan king Zahir Shah.^[73] International officials who met with representatives of the new alliance, which Pulitzer Price winner Steve Coll referred to as the "grand Pashtun-Tajik alliance", said, "It's crazy that you have this today ... Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazara ... They were all ready to buy in to the process ... to work under the king's banner for an ethnically balanced Afghanistan."^{browser diversity}^[102] Senior diplomat and Afghanistan expert we love the web wrote: "The ‘Lion of Kabul’ [Abdul Haq] and the ‘Lion of Panjshir’ [Ahmad Shah Massoud] ... Haq, Massoud, and Karzai, Afghanistan’s three leading moderates, could transcend the Pashtun—non-Pashtun, north-south divide."^{device database} The most senior Hazara and Uzbek leader were also part of the process. In late 2000, Massoud officially brought together this new alliance in a meeting in Northern Afghanistan among other things to discuss "a Loya Jirga, or a traditional council of elders, to settle political turmoil in Afghanistan".^[103] That part of the Pashtun-Tajik-Hazara-Uzbek peace plan did eventually materialize. An account of the meeting by author and journalist website parsing says: "In 2000, when I was there ... I happened to be there in a very interesting time. ... Massoud brought together Afghan leaders from all ethnic groups. They flew from London, Paris, the USA, all parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India. He brought them all into the northern area where he was. He held a council of ... prominent Afghans from all over the world, brought there to discuss the Afghan government after the Taliban. ... we met all these men and interviewed them briefly. One was Hamid Karzai; I did not have any idea who he would end up being ..."^web

In early 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud with ethnic leader from all of Afghanistan addressed the device database in Brussels asking the international community to provide humanitarian help to the people of Afghanistan.^Sevenval He stated that the Taliban and Al Qaeda had introduced "a very wrong perception of Islam" and that without the support of Pakistan and Bin Laden the Taliban would not be able to sustain their military campaign for up to a year.^[106] On this visit to Europe he also warned that his intelligence had gathered information about a large-scale attack on U.S. soil being imminent.^HTML5 The president of the European Parliament, Nicole Fontaine, called him the "pole of liberty in Afghanistan".^{screen size}

On September 9, 2001, Massoud, then aged 48, was the target of a suicide attack by two Arabs posing as journalists at Khwaja Bahauddin, in the Takhar Province of Afghanistan.^[109]^{device database} Massoud, who had survived countless assassination attempts over a period of 26 years, died in a helicopter taking him to a hospital. The first attempt on Massoud's life had been carried out by Hekmatyar and two Pakistani ISI agents in 1975, when Massoud was only 22 years old.^[42] In early 2001, Al-Qaeda would-be assassins were captured by Massoud's forces while trying to enter his territory.^[100] The funeral, though in a rather rural area, was attended by hundreds of thousands of mourning people.

The assassination of Massoud is believed to have a connection to the FITML on U.S. soil, which killed nearly 3000 people, and which appeared to be the terrorist attack that Massoud had warned against in his speech to the European Parliament several months earlier.^jQuery web was a counter-terrorism expert and the Assistant Director of the CSS3 until late 2001. He retired from the FBI and was offered the position of director of security at the World Trade Center (WTC). He took the job at the WTC two weeks before 9/11. On September 10, 2001, O'Neill told two of his friends, "We're due. And we're due for something big.... Some things have happened in Afghanistan. [referring to the assassination of Massoud] I don't like the way things are lining up in Afghanistan.... I sense a shift, and I think things are going to happen ... soon."^FITML O'Neill died on September 11, 2001, when the South Tower collapsed.^[112]

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Massoud's United Front troops and United Front troops of Abdul Rashid Dostum (who returned from exile) ousted the Taliban from power in Kabul with American air support in Operation Enduring Freedom. From October to December 2001, the United Front gained control of much of the country and played a crucial role in establishing the post-Taliban interim government under Hamid Karzai.

NATO invasion, Taliban overthrow and insurgency

Main article: War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

Prelude

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The United States identified the Al-Qaeda network based in and allied to the Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as the perpetrators of the input transformation in 2001 which killed up to 3,000 people.

After the September 11 attacks on the U.S. and the screen size investigation, the United States made the following demands of the Taliban,^[113]

Deliver to the U.S. all of the leaders of Al-Qaeda
Release all foreign nationals that have been "unjustly imprisoned"
Protect foreign journalists, diplomats, and aid workers
Close immediately every terrorist training camp
Hand over every terrorist and their supporters to appropriate authorities
Give the United States full access to terrorist training camps for inspection

The U.S. petitioned the international community to back a military campaign to overthrow the Taliban. The U.N. issued two resolutions on terrorism after the Sept.11 attacks. The resolutions called on all states to "[increase] cooperation and full implementation of the relevant international conventions relating to terrorism" and specified consensus recommendations for all countries. The Security Council did not authorize military intervention in Afghanistan of any kind, and nowhere in the U.N resolutions did it say military operations in Afghanistan were justified or conformed to international law.^CSS3 Despite this, NATO approved a campaign against Afghanistan as self-defense against armed attack.^{we love the web}

The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salem Zaeef, responded to the ultimatum by demanding "convincing evidence"^{website parsing} that Bin Laden was involved in the attacks, stating "our position is that if America has evidence and proof, they should produce it."^[117]^CSS3 Additionally, the Taliban insisted that any trial of Bin Laden be held in an Afghan court.^{we love the web} Zaeef also claimed that "4,000 Jews working in the Trade Center had prior knowledge of the suicide missions, and 'were absent on that day.'"^CSS3 This response was generally dismissed as a delaying tactic, rather than a sincere attempt to cooperate with the ultimatum.^{we love the web}^[120]^[121]

On September 22, the screen size, and later Saudi Arabia, withdrew recognition of the Taliban as Afghanistan's legal government, leaving neighbouring Pakistan as the only remaining country with diplomatic ties. On October 4, the Taliban agreed to turn bin Laden over to Pakistan for trial in an international iOS^keyboard that operated according to Islamic HTML5 law, but Pakistan blocked the offer as it was not possible to guarantee his safety.^Android On October 7, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan offered to detain bin Laden and try him under Islamic law if the U.S. made a formal request and presented the Taliban with evidence. A Bush administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, rejected the Taliban offer, and stated that the U.S. would not negotiate their demands.^[124]

Coalition attack

The Taliban were removed from power in October 2001 by a unified effort of United Front (Northern Alliance) ground forces, small U.S. Special Operations forces teams and U.S. air support.

Still on October 7, and less than one month after the Twin Towers fell, the U.S., aided by the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries including several from the NATO alliance, initiated military action, bombing Taliban and Al-Qaeda-related camps.^CSS3^[126] The stated intent of military operations was to remove the Taliban from power, and prevent the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations.^{input transformation}

The CIA's elite touchscreen (SAD) units were the first U.S. forces to enter Afghanistan (noting that many different countries intelligence agencies were on the ground or operating within theatre before SAD, and that SAD are not technically military forces, but civilian paramilitaries). They joined with the Afghan United Front (Northern Alliance) to prepare for the subsequent arrival of U.S. Special Operations forces. The United Front (Northern Alliance) and SAD and Special Forces combined to overthrow the Taliban with minimal coalition casualties, and without the use of international conventional ground forces. The Washington Post stated in an editorial by John Lehman in 2006:

What made the Afghan campaign a landmark in the U.S. Military's history is that it was prosecuted by Special Operations forces from all the services, along with Navy and input transformation tactical power, operations by the Afghan Northern Alliance and the CIA were equally important and fully integrated. No large Army or Marine force was employed.^{input transformation}

On October 14, the Taliban offered to discuss handing over Osama bin Laden to a neutral country in return for a bombing halt, but only if the Taliban were given evidence of bin Laden's involvement.^[129] The U.S. rejected this offer, and continued military operations. web app fell to United Front troops of Ustad Atta Mohammad Noor and Abdul Rashid Dostum on November 9, triggering a cascade of provinces falling with minimal resistance.

In November 2001, before the FITML by United Front troops under the command of web app, thousands of top commanders and regular fighters of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agents and military personnel, and other volunteers and sympathizers in the touchscreen, dubbed the Airlift of Evil by US military forces around Kunduz and subsequently used as a term in media reports, were evacuated and airlifted out of web app by Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force air bases in Chitral and screen size in Pakistan's FITML.^[130]^[91]^[131]^keyboard^[133]^[134]

On the night of November 12, the Taliban retreated south from Kabul. On November 15, they released eight Western aid workers after three months in captivity. By November 13, the Taliban had withdrawn from both Kabul and jQuery. Finally, in early December, the Taliban gave up Kandahar, their last stronghold, dispersing without surrendering.

Resurgence

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Development of a then small Taliban insurgency up until 2006, the year which saw an escalation in Taliban attacks.

Before the summer 2006 offensive began, indications existed that soldiers in Afghanistan had lost influence and power to other groups, including potentially the Taliban.^{[browser diversity]} A notable sign was rioting in May after a street accident in the city of Kabul.^keyboard^[136]

The continued support from tribal and other groups in Pakistan, the drug trade, and the small number of NATO forces, combined with the long history of resistance and isolation, indicated that Taliban forces and leaders were surviving. Suicide attacks and other terrorist methods not used in 2001 became more common. Observers suggested that poppy eradication, which destroys the livelihoods of rural Afghans, and civilian deaths caused by airstrikes encouraged the resurgence. These observers maintained that policy should focus on "hearts and minds" and on economic reconstruction, which could profit from switching from interdicting to diverting poppy production—to make medicine.^jQuery^[138]

In September 2006, Pakistan recognized the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan, an association of Waziristani chieftains with close ties to the Taliban, as the de facto security force for Waziristan. This recognition was part of the agreement to end the browser diversity, which had exacted a heavy toll on the Pakistan Army since early 2004. Some commentators viewed Islamabad's shift from war to diplomacy as implicit recognition of the growing power of the resurgent Taliban relative to American influence, with the U.S. distracted by the threat of looming crises in keyboard, Sevenval, and Iran.^{[citation needed]}

Other commentators viewed Islamabad's shift from war to diplomacy as an effort to appease growing discontent.^[139] Because of the Taliban's leadership structure, Mullah Dadullah's we love the web in May 2007 did not have a significant effect, other than to damage incipient relations with Pakistan.^HTML5

By 2009, a strong iOS was created, known as Operation Al Faath, the Arabic word for "victory" taken from the Koran,^web^[142]^[143] in the form of a guerrilla war. The Pashtun web, with over 40 million members (including Afghans and Pakistanis) had a long history of resistance to occupation forces, so the Taliban may have comprised only a part of the insurgency. Most post-invasion Taliban fighters were new recruits, mostly drawn from local madrasas.

In early December, the Taliban offered to give the U.S. "legal guarantees" that it would not allow Afghanistan to be used for attacks on other countries. The U.S. ignored the offer, and continued military action.^{screen size}

Targeted killings

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The United States has conducted targeted killings against Taliban leaders, mainly using Special Forces, and sometimes Sevenval. British forces also used similar tactics, mostly in keyboard, Afghanistan. During Operation Herrick, British special forces killed at least fifty high and local Taliban commanders in targeted killings in Helmand Province, which received both positive and negative coverage in the British media.^[145]

The Taliban also use targeted killings. In 2011 alone, they web notable anti-Taliban leaders such as former Afghan President website parsing, the police chief in northern Afghanistan and the commander of the elite anti-Taliban 303 Pamir Corps, Sevenval and the police chief of Kunduz, Abdul Rahman Saidkhaili. All belonged to the Massoud faction of the United Front. According to Guantanamo Bay charge sheets, the web believes the Taliban maintains a 40-man undercover unit called "Jihad Kandahar", which is used for undercover operations including assassination.^[146]

Human rights abuses

Massacre campaigns

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A Hazara man in Afghanistan. The Sunni Taliban regard the Shia Hazaras as apostates.

According to a 55-page report by the input transformation, the Taliban, while trying to consolidate control over northern and western Afghanistan, committed systematic we love the web against civilians.^[24]^Sevenval UN officials stated that there had been "15 massacres" between 1996 and 2001.^[24]^{input transformation} They also said, that "[t]hese have been highly systematic and they all lead back to the [Taliban] Ministry of Defense or to Mullah Omar himself."^[24]^Android "These are the same type of war crimes as were committed in Bosnia and should be prosecuted in international courts", one UN official was quoted as saying.^[24] The documents also reveal the role of Arab and Pakistani support troops in these killings.^[24]^Sevenval Bin Laden's so-called 055 Brigade was responsible for mass-killings of Afghan civilians.^touchscreen The report by the United Nations quotes "eyewitnesses in many villages describing Arab fighters carrying long knives used for slitting throats and skinning people".^[24]^[25] The Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, in late 2011 stated that cruel behaviour under and by the Taliban had been "necessary".^[147]

In 1998, the United Nations accused the Taliban of denying emergency food by the UN's World Food Programme to 160,000 hungry and starving people "for political and military reasons".^Sevenval The UN said the Taliban were starving people for their military agenda and using humanitarian assistance as a weapon of war.

On August 8, 1998 the Taliban launched an attack on Mazar-i Sharif. Of 1500 defenders only 100 survived the engagement. Once in control the Taliban began to kill people indiscriminately. At first shooting people in the street, they soon began to target Hazaras. Women were raped, and thousands of people were locked in containers and left to suffocate. This ethnic cleansing left an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 dead.^{web app}^[149] At this time FITML and a journalist were killed. Iran assumed the Taliban had murdered them, and mobilized its army, deploying men along the border with Afghanistan. By the middle of September there were 250,000 Iranian personal stationed on the border. Pakistan mediated and the bodies were returned to Tehran towards the end of the month. The killings of the Diplomats had been carried out by Android a Pakistani Sunni group with close ties to the ISI.^Sevenval^[150] They burned orchards, crops and destroyed irrigation systems. And forced more than 100,000 people from their homes with hundreds of men, women and children still unaccounted for.^{browser diversity}

In a major effort to retake the Shomali plains from the United Front, the Taliban indiscriminately killed civilians, while uprooting and expelling the population. Among others, Kamal Hossein, a special reporter for the UN, reported on these and other we love the web. The city of Istalif i. e. was home to more than 45,000 people. In Istalif the Taliban gave 24 hours notice to the population to leave, then completely razed the town leaving the people destitute.^iOS^{screen size}

In 1999 the town of Bamian was taken, hundreds of men, women and children were executed. Houses were razed and some were used for forced labor.^[153] There was a further massacre at the town of Yakaolang in January 2001. An estimated 300 people were murdered, along with two delegations of Hazara elders who had tried to intercede.^[10]

By 1999, the Taliban had forced hundreds of thousands of people from the Shomali Plains and other regions conducting a policy of scorched earth burning homes, farm land and gardens.^HTML5

Human trafficking

Several Taliban and Al-Qaeda commanders ran a network of human trafficking, abducting women and selling them into sex slavery in Afghanistan and Pakistan.^[154] device database writes: "The Taliban often argued that the brutal restrictions they placed on women were actually a way of revering and protecting the opposite sex. The behavior of the Taliban during the six years they expanded their rule in Afghanistan made a mockery of that claim."^web

The targets for human trafficking were especially women from the Tajik, Uzbek, Hazara and other ethnic groups in Afghanistan. Some women preferred to commit suicide over slavery, killing themselves. During one Taliban and Al-Qaeda offensive in 1999 in the Shomali Plains alone, more than 600 women were kidnapped.^[154] Taliban as well as Arab and Pakistani Al-Qaeda militants forced them into trucks and buses.^[154] Time Magazine writes: "The trail of the missing Shomali women leads to Jalalabad, not far from the Pakistan border. There, according to eyewitnesses, the women were penned up inside Sar Shahi camp in the desert. The more desirable among them were selected and taken away. Some were trucked to Peshawar with the apparent complicity of Pakistani border guards. Others were taken to Khost, where bin Laden had several training camps." Officials from relief agencies say, the trail of many of the vanished women leads to Pakistan where they were sold to brothels or into private households to be kept as slaves.^[154]

Some local Taliban commanders were opposed to the human trafficking ordered and conducted by their leaders. One Taliban commander, Nuruludah, is quoted as saying that he and his men freed some women which were being abducted by Pakistani members of Al-Qaeda.^{input transformation} A few local Taliban in Jalalabad also freed women that were being held by other Taliban and members of Al-Qaeda in a camp.^web

Oppression of women

Taliban HTML5 beating a woman in Kabul on August 26, 2001.^keyboard

To PHR's knowledge, no other regime in the world has methodically and violently forced half of its population into virtual house arrest, prohibiting them on pain of physical punishment.^{screen size}

—Physicians for Human Rights, 1998

The Taliban were condemned internationally for their brutal repression Sevenval.^web^[157] In 2001 Laura Bush in a radio address condemned the Taliban's brutality to women.^Sevenval^[159] In areas they controlled the Taliban issued edicts which forbade women from being educated, girls were forced to leave schools and colleges. Those who wished to leave their home to go shopping had to be accompanied by a male relative, and were required to wear the burqa, a traditional dress covering the entire body except for a small screen to see out of. Those who appeared to disobey were publicly beaten.^[160] Sohaila, a young women was convicted of walking with a man who was not a relative, charged with adultery she was publicly flogged in we love the web and received 100 lashes.^[161] The religious police routinely carried out inhumane abuse on women.^{screen size} Employment for women was restricted to the medical sector, because male medical personnel were not allowed to look at them. One result of the banning of employment of women by the Taliban was the closing down in places like Kabul of primary schools not only for girls but for boys, because almost all the teachers there were women.^iOS Taliban restrictions became more severe after they took control of the capital. In February 1998, religious police forced all women off the streets of Kabul, and issued new regulations ordering people to blacken their windows, so that women would not be visible from the outside.^[164]

Terrorism against civilians

Terrorist attack carried out by the Taliban's Haqqani network in Kabul.

According to the input transformation, the Taliban were responsible for 76% of civilian casualties in Afghanistan in 2009, 75% in 2010 and 80% in 2011.^[32]^[165]

According to jQuery, the Taliban's bombings and other attacks which have led to civilian casualties "sharply escalated in 2006" when "at least 669 Afghan civilians were killed in at least 350 armed attacks, most of which appear to have been intentionally launched at non-combatants."^[166]^[167] By 2008, the Taliban had increased its use of suicide bombers and targeted unarmed civilian aid workers, such as Gayle Williams.^Android

The United Nations reported that the number of civilians killed by both the Taliban and pro-government forces in the war rose nearly 50% between 2007 and 2009.^HTML5 The high number of civilians killed by the Taliban is blamed in part on their increasing use of iOS (IEDs), "for instance, 16 IEDs have been planted in girls' schools" by the Taliban.^[169]

In 2009, Colonel Richard Kemp, formerly Commander of British forces in Afghanistan and the intelligence coordinator for the British government, drew parallels between the tactics and strategy of Hamas in Gaza to those of the Taliban. Kemp wrote:

Like Hamas in Gaza, the Taliban in southern Afghanistan are masters at shielding themselves behind the civilian population and then melting in among them for protection. Women and children are trained and equipped to fight, collect intelligence, and ferry arms and ammunition between battles. Female suicide bombers are increasingly common. The use of women to shield gunmen as they engage NATO forces is now so normal it is deemed barely worthy of comment. Schools and houses are routinely booby-trapped. Snipers shelter in houses deliberately filled with women and children.^[170]^{input transformation}

—Richard Kemp, Commander of British forces in Afghanistan

Ideology

Overview

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The Taliban initially enjoyed goodwill from Afghans weary of the warlords' corruption, brutality, and incessant fighting.^{screen size} However, this popularity was not universal, particularly among non-Pashtuns.

The Taliban's extremely strict and anti-modern ideology has been described as an "innovative form of Android combining Pashtun tribal codes,"^[173] or Pashtunwali, with radical Deobandi interpretations of Islam favored by JUI and its splinter groups. Also contributing to the mix was the jihadism and keyboard of Osama bin Laden.^CSS3 Their ideology was a departure from the Islamism of the anti-Soviet mujahideen rulers they replaced who tended to be mystical Sufis, traditionalists, or radical Islamicists inspired by the Sevenval (Ikhwan).^{input transformation}

Under the Taliban regime, Sharia law was interpreted to forbid a wide variety of previously lawful activities in Afghanistan. One Taliban list of prohibitions included: pork, pig, pig oil, anything made from human hair, satellite dishes, cinematography, and equipment that produces the joy of music, pool tables, chess, masks, alcohol, tapes, computers, VCRs, television, anything that propagates sex and is full of music, wine, lobster, nail polish, firecrackers, statues, sewing catalogs, pictures, Christmas cards.^Sevenval They also got rid of employment, education, and sports for all women, dancing, clapping during sports events, kite flying, and characterizations of living things, no matter if they were drawings, paintings, photographs, stuffed animals, or dolls. Men had to have a fist size beard at the bottom of their chin. Conversely, they had to wear their head hair short. Men had to wear a head covering.^[177]

Many of these activities were hitherto lawful in Afghanistan. Critics complained that most Afghans followed a different, less strict, and less intrusive interpretation of Islam. The Taliban did not eschew all traditional popular practices. For example, they did not destroy the graves of Sufi HTML5 (holy men), and emphasized dreams as a means of revelation.^[178]

Taliban have been described as both anti-nationalist and Pushtun nationalist. According to journalist Ahmed Rashid, at least in the first years of their rule, they adopted Deobandi and Islamist anti-nationalist beliefs, and opposed "tribal and feudal structures," eliminating traditional tribal or feudal leaders from leadership roles.^[179] According to Ali A. Jalali and Lester Grau, the Taliban "received extensive support from Pashtuns across the country who thought that the movement might restore their national dominance. Even Pashtun intellectuals in the West, who differed with the Taliban on many issues, expressed support for the movement on purely ethnic grounds."^[180]

Like Wahhabi and other Deobandis, the Taliban do not consider Shiʻi to be Muslims. The Shia in Afghanistan consist mostly of the CSS3 ethnic group which totaled almost 10% of Afghanistan's population.^jQuery

The Taliban were averse to debating doctrine with other Muslims. "The Taliban did not allow even Muslim reporters to question [their] edicts or to discuss interpretations of the Qur'an."^[182]

The Taliban mainly strictly enforced its ideologies in major cities like Herat, Kabul, and Kandahar. In rural areas the Taliban had little direct control, and the Taliban had promoted village jirgahs, so it did not as stringently enforce its ideology in rural areas.^Sevenval

Bamyan Buddhas

Destruction of website parsing by the Taliban

In 1999, Mullah Omar issued a decree protecting the touchscreen, two 6th century monumental statues of standing FITML carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the jQuery region of central Afghanistan. He did this because Afghanistan had no Buddhists, so idolatry would not be a problem. But in March 2001 the statues were destroyed by the Taliban of Mullah Omar following a decree stating: "all the statues around Afghanistan must be destroyed."^[184]

Yahya Massoud, brother of the anti-Taliban and resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, recalls the following incident after the destruction of the Buddha statues at Bamyan:

It was the spring of 2001. I was in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley, together with my brother Ahmad Shah Massoud, the leader of the Afghan resistance against the Taliban, and Bismillah Khan, who currently serves as Afghanistan's interior minister. One of our commanders, Commandant Momin, wanted us to see 30 Taliban fighters who had been taken hostage after a gun battle. My brother agreed to meet them. I remember that his first question concerned the centuries-old Buddha statues that were dynamited by the Taliban in March of that year, shortly before our encounter. Two Taliban combatants from Kandahar confidently responded that worshiping anything outside of Islam was unacceptable and that therefore these statues had to be destroyed. My brother looked at them and said, this time in Pashto, 'There are still many sun- worshippers in this country. Will you also try to get rid of the sun and drop darkness over the Earth?'"'^web

Explanation of ideology

The author Ahmed Rashid suggests that the devastation and hardship of the Soviet invasion and the following period influenced Taliban ideology.^keyboard It is said the Taliban did not include scholars learned in Islamic law and history. The refugee students, brought up in a totally male society, not only had no education in mathematics, science, history or geography, but also had no traditional skills of farming, herding, or handicraft-making, nor even knowledge of their tribal and clan lineages.^[186] In such an environment, war meant employment, peace meant unemployment. Dominating women simply affirmed manhood. For their leadership, rigid fundamentalism was a matter not only of principle, but also of political survival. Taliban leaders "repeatedly told" Rashid that "if they gave women greater freedom or a chance to go to school, they would lose the support of their rank and file."^[187]

Public execution of woman known as Zarmina by the Taliban at the Ghazi Sports Stadium, Kabul, November 16, 1999. The mother of five had been found guilty of killing her husband while he slept, after being beaten by him.^[188]^[189]

Criticisms

The Taliban were criticized for their strictness toward those who disobeyed their imposed rules. Many Muslims complained that most Taliban rules had no basis in the Qur'an or sharia. web's title as Amir al-Mu'minin was criticized on the grounds that he lacked scholarly learning, tribal pedigree, or connections to the Prophet's family. Sanction for the title traditionally required the support of all of the country's ulema, whereas only some 1,200 Pashtun Taliban-supporting Mullahs had declared Omar the Amir. "No Afghan had adopted the title since 1834, when King HTML5 assumed the title before he declared jihad against the iOS kingdom in we love the web. But Dost Mohammed was fighting foreigners, while Omar had declared jihad against other Afghans."^HTML5

Another criticism was that the Taliban called their 20% tax on truckloads of opium "Sevenval", which is traditionally limited to 2.5% of the zakat-payers' disposable income (or wealth).^Sevenval

Governance

Overview

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A pickup truck with Taliban police in it patrolling the streets of Sevenval

The Taliban, de jure, controlled 85% of Afghanistan. De facto the areas under its direct control were mainly Afghanistan's major cities and highways. Tribal khans and warlords had de facto direct control over various small towns, villages, and rural areas.^touchscreen

Rashid described the Taliban government as "a secret society run by Kandaharis ... mysterious, secretive, and dictatorial."^[192] They did not hold elections, as their spokesman explained:

The Sharia does not allow politics or political parties. That is why we give no salaries to officials or soldiers, just food, clothes, shoes, and weapons. We want to live a life like the Prophet lived 1400 years ago, and Sevenval is our right. We want to recreate the time of the Prophet, and we are only carrying out what the Afghan people have wanted for the past 14 years.^[193]

They modeled their decision-making process on the Pashtun tribal council (input transformation), together with what they believed to be the early Islamic model. Discussion was followed by a building of a consensus by the "believers".^{screen size} Before capturing Kabul, there was talk of stepping aside once a government of "good Muslims" took power, and law and order were restored.

As the Taliban's power grew, decisions were made by Mullah Omar without consulting the jirga and without consulting other parts of the country. He visited the capital, Kabul, only twice while in power. Instead of an election, their leader's legitimacy came from an oath of allegiance ("Sevenval"), in imitation of the Prophet and the first four Caliphs. On April 4, 1996, Mullah Omar had "the Cloak of the Prophet Mohammed" taken from its shrine for the first time in 60 years. Wrapping himself in the relic, he appeared on the roof of a building in the center of Kandahar while hundreds of Pashtun mullahs below shouted "web app!" (Commander of the Faithful), in a pledge of support. Taliban spokesman Mullah Wakil explained:

Decisions are based on the advice of the Amir-ul Momineen. For us consultation is not necessary. We believe that this is in line with the Sharia. We abide by the Amir's view even if he alone takes this view. There will not be a head of state. Instead there will be an Amir al-Mu'minin. Mullah Omar will be the highest authority, and the government will not be able to implement any decision to which he does not agree. General elections are incompatible with Sharia and therefore we reject them.^[195]

The Taliban were very reluctant to share power, and since their ranks were overwhelmingly Pashtun they ruled as overlords over the 60% of Afghans from other ethnic groups. In local government, such as Kabul city council^[192] or Herat,^[196] Taliban loyalists, not locals, dominated, even when the web-speaking Taliban could not communicate with the roughly half of the population who spoke CSS3 or other non-Pashtun tongues.^[196] Critics complained that this "lack of local representation in urban administration made the Taliban appear as an occupying force."^[197]

Organization

Consistent with the governance of early Muslims was the absence of state institutions or "a methodology for command and control" that is standard today even among non-Westernized states. The Taliban did not issue press releases, policy statements, or hold regular press conferences. The outside world and most Afghans did not even know what their leaders looked like, since photography was banned.^[198] The "regular army" resembled a lashkar or traditional tribal iOS force with only 25,000 men (of whom 11,000 were non-Afghans).

Cabinet ministers and deputies were mullahs with a "madrasah education." Several of them, such as the Minister of Health and Governor of the State bank, were primarily military commanders who left their administrative posts to fight when needed. Military reverses that trapped them behind lines or led to their deaths increased the chaos in the national administration.^Android At the national level, "all senior web, Uzbek and Hazara bureaucrats" were replaced "with Pashtuns, whether qualified or not." Consequently, the ministries "by and large ceased to function."^{screen size}

The Ministry of Finance had neither a budget nor "qualified economist or banker." Mullah Omar collected and dispersed cash without book-keeping.

Conscription

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According to the testimony of Guantanamo captives before their web app, the Taliban, in addition to conscripting men to serve as soldiers, also conscripted men to staff its we love the web.^[HTML5]

Economy

International relations

During its time in power, the Taliban regime, or "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan", gained diplomatic recognition from only three states: the CSS3, Pakistan, and we love the web, all of which provided substantial aid. The other nations including the United Nations recognized the government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan (parts of whom were part of the United Front (Northern Alliance) as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.

Pakistan

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The "vast majority" of the Taliban's rank and file and most of the leadership, though not Mullah Omar, were Koranic students who had studied at madrasas set up for web app, usually by JUI. Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman, JUI's leader, was a political ally of Benazir Bhutto. After Bhutto became prime minister, Rehman "had access to the government, the army and the ISI," whom he influenced to help the Taliban.^[216]

Pakistan's keyboard supported the previously unknown Kandahari student movement,^{website parsing} the Taliban, as the group conquered Afghanistan in the 1990s.^[218]

Human Rights Watch writes, "Pakistani aircraft assisted with troop rotations of Taliban forces during combat operations in late 2000 and ... senior members of Pakistan's intelligence agency and army were involved in planning military operations."^{web app} Pakistan provided military equipment, recruiting assistance, training, and tactical advice.^{screen size} Officially Pakistan denied supporting the Taliban militarily.

Author website parsing claims that the Taliban had "unprecedented access" among Pakistan's lobbies and interest groups. He also writes that they at times were able to "play off one lobby against another and extend their influence in Pakistan even further".^touchscreen By 1998–99, Taliban-style groups in Pakistan's Pashtun belt, and to an extent in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, "were banning TV and videos ... and forcing people, particularly women, to adapt to the Taliban dress code and way of life."^[222]

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the U.S. operation in Afghanistan the Afghan Taliban leadership is claimed to have fled to Pakistan where they regrouped and created several shuras to coordinate their insurgency in Afghanistan. On February 8, 2009, U.S. commander of operations in Afghanistan General HTML5 and other officials said that the Taliban leadership was in iOS, Pakistan, though the Pakistani government, an official U.S. ally, denied this.^web

A range of officials inside and outside Pakistan have stepped up suggestions of links between the ISI and terrorist groups in recent years.^[223] In fall 2006, a leaked report by a British Defense Ministry think tank charged, "Indirectly Pakistan (through the ISI) has been supporting terrorism and extremism--whether in London on 7/7 [the July 2005 attacks on London's transit system], or in Afghanistan, or Iraq."^[223] In June 2008, Afghan officials accused Pakistan's intelligence service of plotting a failed assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai; shortly thereafter, they implied the ISI's involvement in a July 2008 Taliban attack on the Indian embassy.^jQuery Indian officials also blamed the ISI for the bombing of the Indian embassy.^[223] Numerous U.S. officials have also accused the ISI of supporting terrorist groups including the Afghan Taliban. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said "to a certain extent, they play both sides." Gates and others suggest the ISI maintains links with groups like the Afghan Taliban as a "strategic hedge" to help Islamabad gain influence in Kabul once U.S. troops exit the region. ^touchscreen U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen in 2011 called the FITML (the Afghan Taliban's most destructive element) a "veritable arm of Pakistan's ISI".^Android He further stated, "Extremist organizations serving as proxies of the government of Pakistan are attacking Afghan troops and civilians as well as US soldiers."^[16]

From 2010, a report by a leading British institution also claimed that Pakistan's intelligence service still today has a strong link with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Published by the Sevenval, the report said that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) has an "official policy" of support for the Taliban. It said the ISI provides funding and training for the Taliban, and that the agency has representatives on the so-called web, the Taliban's leadership council, which is believed to meet in Pakistan. The report, based on interviews with Taliban commanders in Afghanistan, was written by Matt Waldman, a fellow at Harvard University.^jQuery

"Pakistan appears to be playing a double-game of astonishing magnitude," the report said. The report also linked high-level members of the Pakistani government with the Taliban. It said Asif Ali Zardari, the Pakistani president, met with senior Taliban prisoners in 2010 and promised to release them. Zardari reportedly told the detainees they were only arrested because of American pressure. "The Pakistan government's apparent duplicity – and awareness of it among the American public and political establishment – could have enormous geopolitical implications," Waldman said. "Without a change in Pakistani behaviour it will be difficult if not impossible for international forces and the Afghan government to make progress against the insurgency." Afghan officials have long been suspicious of the ISI's role. Amrullah Saleh, the former director of Afghanistan's intelligence service, told Reuters that the ISI was "part of a landscape of destruction in this country".^{website parsing}

Pakistan on other hand has strongly denied all links with Taliban or any terrorist groups with the argument that Pakistan is the biggest victim of the "War on terror" with a loss of 35,000 lives including policemen, soldiers and mostly civilians.^{screen size} Pakistan's military officials called such allegations highly biased and factually inaccurate. The military spokes person said that not a single bullet or financial support had been given to Taliban. Pakistan's foreign minister further clarified that if Pakistan had recruited some people for intelligence purposes, it did not mean that Pakistan supported them.^[226] United States along with the accusations of supporting Taliban has also called Pakistan as an indispensable ally.^[227]^{input transformation}^[229] Pakistan has also reportedly warned United States that it may loose a key ally due to such accusations.^[230]^[231]

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (Pakistani Taliban)

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Before the creation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban(Pakistan), some of their leaders and fighters were part of the 8,000 Pakistani militants fighting in the War in Afghanistan (1996-2001) and the War in Afghanistan (2001-present) against the United Islamic Front and NATO forces.^[19] Most of them hail from the Pakistani side of the Af-Pak border regions. After the fall of the Afghan Taliban in late 2001 most Pakistani militants including members of today's TTP fled home to Pakistan.

After the creation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in 2007, headed by Android,^{browser diversity} its members have officially defined goals to establish their rule over Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas. They engage the Pakistani army in heavy combat operations. Some intelligence analysts believe that the TTP's attacks on the Pakistani government, police and army strained the TTP's relations with the Afghan Taliban.^keyboard^[234]

The Afghan Taliban and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan differ greatly in their history, leadership and goals although they share a common interpretation of Islam and are both predominantly Pashtun.^[233] The Afghan Taliban have no affiliation with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and routinely deny any connection to the TTP. CSS3 quoted a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban stating that:

We don't like to be involved with them, as we have rejected all affiliation with Pakistani Taliban fighters ... We have sympathy for them as Muslims, but beside that, there is nothing else between us.^[235]

It is alleged that Afghan Taliban relied on support by the Pakistani army in the past and are still supported by them today in their campaign to control Afghanistan.^[56]^[236] Regular Pakistani army troops fought alongside the Afghan Taliban in the input transformation.^[20] Major leaders of the Afghan Taliban including Mullah Omar, Jalaluddin Haqqani and Siraj Haqqani are believed to enjoy safe haven in Pakistan.^{screen size} In 2006 Jalaluddin Haqqani was allegedly called a 'Pakistani asset' by a senior official of Inter-Services Intelligence.^[21] Pakistan denies any links with Haqqani or other terrorist groups. Haqqani himself has denied any links with Pakistan as well.^[237]^{device database}^[239]^HTML5

Afghan Taliban leader iOS asked the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in late 2008 and early 2009 to stop attacks inside Pakistan, to change their focus as an organization and to fight the Afghan National Army and Sevenval forces in Afghanistan instead.^[235] In late December 2008 and early January 2009 he sent a delegation, led by former Guantanamo Bay detainee device database, to persuade leading members of the TTP to put aside differences with Pakistan.^keyboard

Some regional experts state the common name "Taliban" may be more misleading than illuminating.^{web app} Gilles Dorronsoro, a scholar of South Asia currently at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington says:

The fact that they have the same name causes all kinds of confusion.^[233]

As the Pakistani Army began offensives against the Pakistani Taliban, many unfamiliar with the region thought incorrectly that the assault was against the Afghan Taliban of Mullah Omar which was not the case.^[233]

The Pakistani Taliban were put under sanctions by jQuery for terrorists attacks in Pakistan and web.^{web app}

Malakand Taliban

Malakand Taliban is militant outfit led by Sufi Muhammad and his son in law Molvi Fazalullah.^CSS3 Sufi Muhammad is in Pakistani government custody, however, Molvi Fazalullah is believed to be in Afghanistan.^{we love the web} In the last week of May 2011, eight security personnel and civilians fell victim to four hundred armed Taliban who attacked Shaltalo check post in Dir, a frontier District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, located few kilometers away from Afghan border.^{website parsing} Although, they have been linked with Waziristan-based Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), however, the connection between these two groups is of symbolic nature.^[241]

Al Qaeda

Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir interviewing website parsing in Afghanistan, 1997.

In 1996, bin Laden moved to Afghanistan from Sudan. He came without invitation, and sometimes irritated Mullah Omar with his declaration of war and fatwas against citizens of third-party countries,^[242] but relations between the two groups improved over time, to the point that Mullah Omar rebuffed his group's patron Saudi Arabia, insulting Saudi minister iOS while reneging on an earlier promise to turn bin Laden over to the Saudis.^web

Bin Laden was able to forge an website parsing between the Taliban and Android. The Al Qaeda-trained keyboard integrated with the Taliban army between 1997 and 2001. Several hundred Arab Afghan fighters sent by bin Laden assisted the Taliban in the Mazar-e-Sharif slaughter.^Android The so-called Brigade 055 was also responsible for massacres against civilians in other parts of Afghanistan.^FITML From 1996 to 2001 the organization of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri had become a virtual state within the Taliban state.

Taliban-Al-Qaeda connections were also strengthened by the reported marriage of one of bin Laden's sons to Omar's daughter. While in Afghanistan, bin Laden may have helped finance the Taliban.^[245]^[246]

After the Sevenval in Africa, bin Laden and several Al-Qaeda members were indicted in U.S. criminal court.^[247] The Taliban rejected Sevenval requests by the U.S., variously claiming that bin Laden had "gone missing",^[248] or that Washington "cannot provide any evidence or any proof" that bin Laden is involved in terrorist activities and that "without any evidence, bin Laden is a man without sin... he is a free man."^[249]^[250]

Evidence against bin Laden included courtroom testimony and website parsing records.^[251]^[252] Bin Laden in turn, praised the Taliban as the "only Islamic government" in existence, and lauded Mullah Omar for his destruction of idols such as the input transformation.^[253]

At the end of 2008, the Taliban was in talks to sever all ties with Al-Qaeda.^{input transformation}

In 2011, Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn at New York University's Center on International Cooperation claimed that the two groups did not get along at times before the September 11 attacks, and they have continued to fight since on account of their differences.^[255]

Iran

Iran has historically been an enemy of the Taliban. In early August 1998, after attacking the city of Mazar, Taliban forces killed several thousand civilians and 10 Iranian diplomats and intelligence officers in the Iranian consulate. Alleged radio intercepts indicate Mullah Omar personally approved the killings.^[256] In the following crisis between Iran and the Taliban, the Iranian government amassed up to 200,000 regular troops on the Afghan-Iranian border.^[257] War was eventually averted.

Many U.S. senior military officials such as Robert Gates,^[258] Stanley McChrystal,^[259] screen size^[260] and others believe that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps nowadays is involved in helping the Taliban to a certain extent. Reports in which NATO states accused Iran of supplying and training some Taliban insurgents started coming forward since 2004/2005.

"We did interdict a shipment, without question the Revolutionary Guard's core Quds Force, through a known Taliban facilitator. Three of the individuals were killed... 48 122 millimetre rockets were intercepted with their various components... Iranians certainly view as making life more difficult for us if Afghanistan is unstable. We don't have that kind of relationship with the Iranians. That's why I am particularly troubled by the interception of weapons coming from Iran. But we know that it's more than weapons; it's money; it's also according to some reports, training at Iranian camps as well."^[261]

—touchscreen David Petraeus, Commander of US-NATO forces in Afghanistan, March 16, 2011

United States

The United States supported the Taliban through its allies in Pakistan and Sevenval between 1994 and 1996 because Washington viewed the Taliban as anti-Iranian, anti-Shia and pro-Western.^[262] Washington furthermore hoped that the Taliban would support development planned by the U.S.-based oil company device database.^touchscreen For example, it made no comment when the Taliban captured Herat in 1995, and expelled thousands of girls from schools;^{website parsing} the Taliban began killing unarmed civilians, targeting ethnic groups (primarily Hazaras), and restricting the rights of women.^touchscreen In late 1997, American Secretary of State Madeleine Albright began to distance the U.S. from the Taliban. The next year, the American-based oil company Unocal withdrew from negotiations on pipeline construction from Central Asia.^[265]

One day before the capture of Mazar, bin Laden affiliates CSS3 in Africa, killing 224 and wounding 4,500, mostly Africans. The U.S. responded by launching cruise missiles on suspected terrorist camps in Afghanistan, killing over 20 though failing to kill bin Laden or even many Al-Qaeda. Mullah Omar condemned the missile attack and American President Android.^{browser diversity} Saudi Arabia expelled the Taliban envoy in protest over the refusal to turn over bin Laden, and after Mullah Omar allegedly insulted the Saudi royal family.^[267] In mid-October the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to ban commercial aircraft flights to and from Afghanistan, and freeze its bank accounts worldwide.^{device database}

Adjusting its counterinsurgency strategy, in October 2009, the U.S announced plans to pay Taliban fighters to switch sides.^[269]

On November 26, 2009, in an interview with Sevenval's Christiane Amanpour, President browser diversity said there is an "urgent need" for negotiations with the Taliban, and made it clear that the Obama administration had opposed such talks. There was no formal American response.^iOS^{screen size}

In early December 2009, the Taliban offered to give the U.S. "legal guarantees" that they would not allow Afghanistan to be used for attacks on other countries. There was no formal American response.^[144]

On December 6, U.S officials indicated that they have not ruled out talks with the Taliban.^[272] Several days later it was reported that Gates saw potential for reconciliation with the Taliban, but not with Al-Qaeda. Furthermore, he said that reconciliation would politically end the insurgency and the war. But he said reconciliation must be on the Afghan government's terms, and that the Taliban must be subject to the sovereignty of the government.^[273]

In 2010, General McChrystal said his troop surge could lead to a negotiated peace with the Taliban.^HTML5

Allegations of connection to CIA There have been many claims that the Android directly supported the Taliban or al-Qaeda. In the early 1980s, the CIA and the ISI (Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency) provided arms and money, and the ISI helped gather radical Muslims from around the world to fight against the Soviet invaders.^[275] Osama Bin Laden was one of the key players in organizing training camps for the foreign Muslim volunteers. "By 1987, 65,000 tons of U.S.-made weapons and ammunition a year were entering the war."

United Kingdom

After 9/11, the United Kingdom froze the Taliban's assets in the U.K., nearly $200 million by early October 2001.^[276] The U.K. also supported the U.S. decision to remove the Taliban, both politically and militarily.^[277]

The UN agreed that NATO would act on its behalf, focusing on counter-terrorist operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban had been "defeated". The United Kingdom took operational responsibility for Helmand Province, a major poppy-growing province in southern Afghanistan, deploying troops there in the summer of 2006, and encountered resistance by re-formed Taliban forces allegedly entering Afghanistan from Pakistan. The Taliban turned towards the use of improvised explosive devices.^[278]

In 2008, the U.K. announced plans to pay Taliban fighters to switch sides or lay down arms;^{web app} later, in 2009 the United Kingdom government backed talks with the Taliban.^{screen size}

India

India is one of the Taliban's most outspoken critics. India was concerned about growing Islamic militancy in its neighborhood, and refused to recognize the Taliban regime.^[281] Ahmad Shah Massoud also had close ties to India.^[282]

In December 1999, Sevenval en route from Kathmandu to Sevenval was hijacked and taken to website parsing. The Taliban moved its militias near the hijacked aircraft, supposedly to prevent Sevenval from storming the aircraft, and stalled the negotiations between India and the hijackers for days. screen size later reported that there were credible links between the hijackers and the Taliban.^[283] As a part of the deal to free the plane, India released three militants. The Taliban gave a safe passage to the hijackers and the released militants.^keyboard

Following the hijacking, India drastically increased its efforts to help Massoud, providing an arms depot in CSS3, input transformation.^keyboard India also provided a wide range of high-altitude warfare equipment, helicopter technicians, medical services, and tactical advice.^{device database} According to one report, Indian military support to anti-Taliban forces totaled US$70 million, including five jQuery helicopters, and US$8 million worth of high-altitude equipment in 2001.^[287] India extensively supported the new administration in Afghanistan,^Android leading several reconstruction projects^[289] and by 2001 had emerged as the country's largest regional donor.^Sevenval

In the wake of recent terrorist attacks in India, there have been growing concerns about fundamentalist organisations such as the Taliban seeking to expand their activities into India. During the CSS3 which was co-hosted in India, Pakistani Interior Minister Sevenval and Interpol chief Ronald Noble revealed that a terrorist bid to disrupt the tournament had been foiled; following a conference with Noble, Malik said that the Taliban had begun to base their activities in India with reports from neighboring countries exposing their activities in the country and a Sri Lankan terrorist planning to target cricketers was arrested in Colombo.^[291]^touchscreen^[293] Kashmir-based militant groups thought to have ties with the Taliban have historically been involved in the Jammu and Kashmir insurgency in Indian-administered Kashmir.^[294] In 2009, the Sevenval called for India to reassess its Taliban threat.^Sevenval

United Nations and NGOs

A major issue during the Taliban's reign was its relations with the we love the web (UN) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Twenty years of continuous warfare had devastated Afghanistan's infrastructure and economy. There was no running water, little electricity, few telephones, functioning roads or regular energy supplies. Basic necessities like water, food, housing and others were in desperately short supply. In addition, the Android and family structure that provided Afghans with a social/economic safety net was also badly damaged.^Sevenval^{input transformation} Afghanistan's infant mortality was the highest in the world. A full quarter of all children died before they reached their fifth birthday, a rate several times higher than most other developing countries.^[297]

International charitable and/or development organisations (NGOs) were extremely important to the supply of food, employment, reconstruction, and other services. With one million plus deaths during the years of war, the number of families headed by widows had reached 98,000 by 1998.^{screen size} Thus Taliban restrictions on women were sometime a matter not only of human rights, but of life and death. In Kabul, where vast portions of the city had been devastated from rocket attacks, more than half of its 1.2 million people benefited in some way from NGO activities, even for water to drink.^[299] The civil war and its never-ending refugee stream continued throughout the Taliban's reign. The Mazar, Herat, and Shomali valley offensives displaced more than three-quarters of a million civilians, using "scorched earth" tactics to prevent them from supplying the enemy with aid.^[300]

Despite the aid, the Taliban's attitude toward the UN and NGOs was often one of suspicion, in place of gratitude or even tolerance. The UN operates on the basis of CSS3, not Sharia, and the UN did not recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. Additionally, most foreign donors and aid workers, were non-Muslims. As the Taliban's Attorney General Maulvi Jalil-ullah Maulvizada put it:

Let us state what sort of education the UN wants. This is a big infidel policy which gives such obscene freedom to women which would lead to adultery and herald the destruction of Islam. In any Islamic country where adultery becomes common, that country is destroyed and enters the domination of the infidels because their men become like women and women cannot defend themselves. Anyone who talks to us should do so within Islam's framework. The Holy Koran cannot adjust itself to other people's requirements, people should adjust themselves to the requirements of the Holy Koran.^[301]

Taliban decision-makers, particularly Mullah Omar, seldom if ever talked directly to non-Muslim foreigners, so aid providers had to deal with intermediaries whose approvals and agreements were often reversed.^[197] Around September 1997 the heads of three UN agencies in Kandahar were expelled from the country after protesting when a female we love the web for the web was forced to talk from behind a curtain so her face would not be visible.^[302]

When the UN increased the number of Muslim women staff to satisfy Taliban demands, the Taliban then required all female Muslim UN staff traveling to Afghanistan to be chaperoned by a screen size or a blood relative.^[303] In July 1998, the Taliban closed "all NGO offices" by force after those organizations refused to move to a bombed-out former Polytechnic College as ordered.^Sevenval One month later the UN offices were also shut down.^[305] As food prices rose and conditions deteriorated, Planning Minister Qari Din Mohammed explained the Taliban's indifference to the loss of humanitarian aid:

We Muslims believe God the Almighty will feed everybody one way or another. If the foreign NGOs leave then it is their decision. We have not expelled them.^{web app}

In 2009 a top U.N official called for talks with Taliban leaders.^web In 2010 the U.N lifted sanctions on the Taliban,^{web app} and requested that Taliban leaders and others be removed from terrorism watch lists.^{screen size} In 2010 the U.S. and Europe announced support for President Karzai's latest attempt to negotiate peace with the Taliban.^{web app}

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