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    Research Question: What was it like to live as a slightly educated 11 year old girl, with a 6 membered family in a one roomed apartment located in Afghanistan under the Taliban’s rule? As a female, one was restricted from a lot of things. They could not go outside without a male relative as an escort, and the windows of their houses had to be painted over with black paint so no one could see them. When a girl is still young, they only have to wear a Chador, a piece of cloth that covers their hair

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    Taliban - the world's most extreme and radical Islamic organization that inspires fascination, controversy, and especially fear in both the Muslim world and the West - has been brought into sharp focus in Ahmed Rashid's book "Taliban". This enormously insightful book gives an account of Taliban's rise to power, its impact on Afghanistan and the Central Asian region. The book also analyzes the wider regional and geopolitical implications of the Taliban's advent to power and the role that Taliban has

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    Taliban Narrative

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    I’ve never been so frightened in my life, since the day the Taliban came barging into our house, grabbing father and turning the place upside-down. Mother was depressed for the next week. It was hard for us, Norria and I, always keeping the little ones quiet and reshining out the food to survive. Thank god for Mrs Weera, she helped mother get back to normal and came up with the idea to disguise me as a boy so I could support my family. At first I didn’t like the idea, but once we cut my hair I felt

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    Women In The Taliban

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    their news. To demonstrate this point, I chose to use an article on a topic that was published in print (online) from the newspaper The Guardian and in a video from Fox News on television. The topic is about the Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban over activism claims. The story goes like this; on October 9,, 2012 a shocking incident happened in Afghanistan. A 14 year old girl named Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head because she stood up for her beliefs; the right to education for girls

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    I don't like this being told what to do, when too do it and how. I am to scared to go outside the Taliban, they're always watching you. I know what they did to Father and I don't want that for me. Can't mother understand that. I have got no clue how I found myself in this predicament, it's the new thing now, every day after lunch Parvana takes us all out for the simplistically of fresh air, much to my disgust. After all this I knew I didn't like the idea, but I had to try and co-operate, because

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    The fall of the Taliban group in 2001, because of the U.S war on Afghanistan, forced Zarqawi to escape to Iraq. There his existence went widely unnoticed till the Bush administration used it as evidence that al-Qaeda was in relation with Saddam Hussein and they would get assistance through his regime. In fact, though, Zarqawi was a free agent, searching to create his own terror group organization. Briefly after the US-led Occupation of Iraq in 2003, he set up the forerunner to today’s Islamic State:

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    When the Taliban was running the government, women encountered more problems in the field of health. Health care statistics for Afghan women are among the lowest in the world, the Taliban also imposed rules attaching to how women achieve medical attention in 1997, hospitals were closed to women, and Women could only go to a clinic. Taliban regime started systematically enforcing a previously ignored policy segregating male and female medical patients into different hospital in September 1997. All

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    women living in Afghanistan. Under the rule of the Taliban women had next to no rights because of the high honor held by men in their society. After the removal of the Taliban by the Northern Alliance in Kabul in 2001, conditions for women have improved, but inequality still exists due to a continued patriarchal society. Even before Taliban rule in Afghanistan, women were looked

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    particular Italy and Germany denying the allegation of bribing the Taliban in order to maintain the peace in certain parts of Afghanistan. The officials maintained that was only “Taliban propaganda” and such a strategy would not work because taliban were terrorists and by October 17, 2009 were already 131 casualties. But at the same time Maj. Mario Couture, a spokesman for Task Force Kandahar acknowledged that they compensated the Taliban for “taking part in structured disarmament programs” or to prevent

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    SCHOOL HOT SPOT: Bolshevik Revolution and Taliban in Afghanistan A RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED TO MR. TRIPLETT SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT BY Maxwell Abmas DALLAS, TEXAS MAY 12, 2017 The Islamic fundamentalist group known as the Taliban continues to act as a dominant group in Afghanistan even 14 years after the invasion by the US. The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001 when an invasion led by the US collapsed the regime due to the Taliban providing security to al-Qaeda and Osama

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