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The Taliban (The Taliban in Pakistan (TTP) (Aims (Armed resistance to the…
The Taliban
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Origins
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Spiritual head of the Taliban, Mullah Omar established his leadership in 1994 in Kandahar Aghanistan.
Their ideological aims are to re-establish an austere and uncompromisingly conservative Islamic state in Afghanistan
The Taliban rose to power in 1996 and fell in 2001. They still have the desire to impose Shariah in Afghanistan.
The vast majority of the group came from universities in Afghanistan, hence why they were called students.
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Many members who left Afghanistan during the war, return again in the 1990s.
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In 1994, conflict escalates and people begin to gravitate towards the Taliban because they are successful at reducing crime and bring a sense of order to the country after over a decade of nothing but destruction and chaos.
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Consolidation of Power
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The tables reversed on the current Afghan government, led by Ahmad Shah Masood who had inflicted a heavy defeat on the Taliban earlier that year.
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65% of Afghanistan under control of Taliban with exception of areas in the north and north east of the country. This area was known as the Northern Alliance
The Taliban wouldn't have been able to come to power without the help of the ISI and Saudi Arabia who gave the country a lot of money.
Saudi's detested Iran and wanted to get one up over them and Afghanistan bordered them., hence why the assisted the Taliban.
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Historiography
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Claims the Pakistani ISI, was a principal supporter of the Taliban by 2001.
US not interested in the future of Afghanistan no the Taliban regime, hence why The Taliban were able to rise to power following the chaos left by the Afghan-Soviet War.
The Taliban emerged as a direct consequence of the appalling conditions after the war and due to the following civil war between warlords.
The Talibans intellectual shortcomings allowed them to come under the influence of Al Qaeda's global jihad philosophy
Al Qaeda's conscription of thousands of young me to fight their wars created widespread public resentment
Taliban's success, helped by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia's ability to lavish massive support to the movement, was due largely to Washington's silence.