Taliban takeover of Afganistan
Taliban takeover of Afghanistan At first, we should know about the Taliban Taliban- Taliban , Pashto Ṭālebān (“Students”) , also spelled Taleban , an ultraconservative political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s following the withdrawal of Soviet troops, the collapse of Afghanistan’s communist regime, and the subsequent breakdown in civil order. The faction took its name from its membership, which consisted largely of students trained in madrasahs (Islamic religious schools) that had been established for Afghan refugees in the 1980s in northern Pakistan. Origin and rule- The Taliban emerged as a force for social order in 1994 in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar and quickly subdued the local warlords who controlled the south of the country. By late 1996, popular support for the Taliban among Afghanistan’s southern pashtun ethnic group , as well as assis...