Title AFGHANISTAN - Terrorism & Taliban
Date-wise Events
  • September 27, 1996:   Taliban captured Kabul
    • Taliban captured the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
  • Aug 01, 1997: Taliban launched an attack on Sheberghan, the main military base of Abdul Rashid Dostum, the first Vice President of Afghanistan. The reason for this successful attack was attributed to 1500 Pakistani commandos taking part and the Pakistani air force providing support to Taliban. 
  • Jul 06, 1999: On this day, the then US president Bill Clinton passed an executive order to implement a complete ban on any trade between America and the Taliban regime.
  • September 28, 2016:   Taliban attack in northern Kunduz province.
    • At least 12 Afghan soldiers have been killed at a checkpoint in a Taliban attack in northern Kunduz province. It was reported that the two soldiers helped the insurgents enter the base and then joined them in attacking their colleagues as they slept.
Taliban - Afghanistan
•The Creation of Taliban goes back to 1979, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. In 1973, The Soviet Union brought their soldiers into Afghanistan claiming to rebuild the crushing economy. However, the Soviet was resented by the Mujahidin (from whom the Taliban evolved from).
•The Taliban is a predominantly Pashtun, Islamic fundamentalist group that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when a U.S.-led invasion toppled the regime for providing refuge to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
•Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan - Taliban Movement of Pakistan, alternatively referred to as the Taliban, is a terrorist group which is an umbrella organization of various militant groups based in the northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Afghan border in Pakistan.
•The Taliban disagreed with past Afghan statutes that allowed the employment of women in a mixed sex workplace. They claimed this was a breach of purdah and sharia law.
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