The Taleban (Taliban) are a group of fundamentalist Pashtun Muslims trained in Pakistani religious schools and former American trained and funded Islamic fighters (mujahedin) from the Afghan civil war (in which the USSR supported the Communist government, and the USA the Islamic terrorists who sought to other throw it). The group became known to the world when they were appointed by the Pakistani government to protect a convoy trying to open up a trade route between Pakistan and Central Asia. In addition the group captured the nearby city of Kandahar, beginning a remarkable advance which led to their capture of the capital, Kabul, in September 1996. The
Taleban claimed that their aim was to set up the world's most pure Islamic state, banning frivolities like television, music and cinema, and imposing severe fundamentalist Islamic laws including execution for even minor crimes, banning girls from school and women from hospital, from the areas of Afghanistan they controlled - 90% at the time of American led attacks on them in 2001. Research Taleban
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