Taliban, By Ahmed Rashid

The Taliban are an Islamic political movement. They ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. When they took over, several new laws, rules, and restrictions were made.

Young men who join the Taliban are not as ideological. They are motivated by money and the Taliban’s willingness to pay them, adventure seekers and those who long for the status that only power can provide. Furthermore, they long for a change to their country that has not come since 2001. During this time, they have found rage in instances such as a local villager being killed or wounded in an attack by Afghan, U.S., or NATO forces.

Problems that the Taliban have caused, in real life, have impacted the way that many innocent people in various Arab countries used to live--long ago, life was delectable to many. People lived in a state of tranquility, and could live accompanied by one word: freedom. However, later on, and not long ago, the Taliban created a set of strict, over-the top rules that have not only completely

Taliban means students and this name was chosen to symbolize how they were going to learn from their ancestors and take back their land and prevent it from being taken again. THey then engaged in Jihad, or “Holy war”, to take back afghanistan. Not long after the assault began they regained control of most of the upper part of afghanistan. Other factions had also risen and a war of multiple fronts started and thats how it was so quick to regain control. The area of Afghanistan was once again split into 3 major territories and completely obliterated. The Taliban then became a superpower, in relative terms to its opponents, and began to take control of all the Afghanistan territory. Uniting it, but at a cost. It promised to have a strict interpretation of the Quran, the Islamic holy book. But soon became corrupt and only became abusive to women and children and severely disadvantaged the males. To fund this foul government they allowed terrorists to take refuge, one such group was al-Qaeda. Headed by Osama bin-Laden, he began to lead the Taliban government from behind the scenes and he, along with interpretations from the Quran, was that the

With the Taliban beginning its reigns on Afghanistan, darkness took over the nation. Terror became a more common installment into the minds of the citizens. Hearing the rumble of the jeeps, the bangs of the AK-47s, and the bombs setting off can send a shiver down anyone’s back. Families are torn apart, children forget what play time is, schools are destroyed. The injustice that the Taliban brought is defined through the cruelest of actions. “There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.” (Hosseini, 1) With their regime, the Taliban established radical rules that limited the country to all but making the essential function of speaking, barely legal. The effect of the Taliban begin to spread specifically towards Amir and his family. With the beginning the war, Amir sees his

Fazlullah was the leader of the Taliban and the first thing he did to gain power over the people was get them to like him and believe in him. He told people that he was an Islamic reformer and an interpreter of Quran. He created a radio station for the people to listen to. On this radio station he would cry about his love for the country and would talk about the “good habits” he wanted the people to adopt. He would also use the radio station to persuade the people to abandon their practices because he claimed they were bad for the country. A man named Shah Douran would also come on to the station and tell the people to stop listening to music, watching movies and dancing because those things were all “sinful acts” and those acts are what caused

The Taliban are an Islamic fundamentalist group, and they ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. They are extremely ruthless, and we have many different glimpses of this in the book. “So [the Talibs] took him to the street...and ordered him to kneel...and shot him in the back of the head. Farzana came screaming and attacked them...shot her too. Self-defense, they claimed later” (Hosseini 219). In this quote, the Talib officials shot Hassan and his wife for absolutely no reason, and claimed it was self defense. The author, Hosseini, gives us the audience a completely raw, haunting portrait of the Taliban and of their effect on the people living in Afghanistan at the

The United States has been fighting the war in Afghanistan for the past fourteen years, yet the Taliban insurgents are not defeated and the insurgency is rising. This paper examines the major reasons why the United States has not been able to defeat the Taliban insurgent group in Afghanistan since 9/11.The main players in war against the Taliban are the governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States. The Afghan Taliban insurgent group, installed and backed up by Pakistan’s government officially ruled over Afghanistan from 1996-2001. In the meantime, the Taliban endorsed and allowed Osama Bin Laden, the founder and leader of Al-Qaeda global terrorist organization to set up terrorist training camps in eastern and southern

The taliban’s concept was that their personal religious beliefs were correct and the beliefs of others were wrong. Moreover, he called Amir a traitor as he lleft his country at such grave times and fled. The second reason was that Amir was friends with a hazara and went through severe lengths for just a young hazara boy. Which according to Aseef was an incorrect way for one to honor one’s country. Hence this depicts that how racial and religious differences from a person’s early life can lead to whole new future for them.

learned about the Taliban growing up, I know that they are terrible, but to read from this perspective it

This confidential report is written for upper level Taliban leadership and is presented by Mark Miller, Taliban media agent.

Through the use of my resources I will use the book “On Guerilla Warfare” as well as to explain the successful tactics of the Taliban, and how important the tactics explained in this book were monumental to the movements success. Also I will use a story dubbed, resources which describe the methods that other sovereign countries used to utilize support and ultimately proved affective in ending the conflict.

The Taliban begin in the 1980s during the Soviet invasion when the Soviet Union said they were sending soldiers to Afghanistan to rebuild to failing economy. Soon a leader Mullah Omar would take on control over everyone in 1994 after fighting during the anti-Soviet Union as a Pashtun who had served as a junior mujahadeen commander in the 1980s which he lost one eye. While leader Omar expressed the Taliban would bring peace and would enforce Islamic Law. Which he later showed that would not be what he stood for in the end. Despite the fact what he said he would do Mullah became a leader of an extremely cruel government and the leader of the strictest version of Sharia law

2. a) “War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.”, Martin Luther. This statement is undoubtedly accurate; during the war, there is only chaos. Bombings, bloodshed, gunfire, deaths of innocents, to only name a few of the unthinkable acts during this time of devastation. After the Taliban had taken over, the bombing had indeed stopped, but the brutality and disorder of the war remained. Women were forced to stay in their homes, to leave what little education they had and were not allowed to go to work. They always had wear burqas when out in public, they had to learn to hold their tongues and hide their faces, because fatal and troubling consequences are happen to young

Working with the Taliban, al-Qa’ida, and Pakistan’s ISI is a duplicitous role that provides “credibility within, and across, multiple dimensions of jihad” (Rassler et al. July 14, 2011, p.5) establishing the shared identity necessary to imbue respect and connectivity as part of an influential group dynamic. Why is all this important? The Haqqani network’s credibility in the region, especially with the tribal groups of Afghanistan, helps extend the Taliban’s reach and because the Haqqani network is effective militarily, they act as a force multiplier for the Taliban. This puts the Haqqani network in a regional leadership position, and Schwartz, Dunkel, et al suggest that this leadership role would be considered admirable providing further social capital.