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The Taliban's Rise In the last blog, we discussed Afghanistan and the Mujahideen. Ultimately Mujahideen was in full power, and Mohammad Najibullah was sitting on Afghanistan's throne. The USSR tried to help Najibullah but it was all in vain, as in 1991 the USSR itself got broken. Mujahideen boycotted the parliamentary elections held in Afghan and a civil war starts, which  Mujahideen  ultimately won. In spite of the fact that Mujahideen was an Islamic group, it was formed with people of different ideologies who belonged to different ethnicities, which resulted in tension among the group as to who will get the power.  In 1992,  Burhanuddin Rabbani  got power and became the leader of Afghanistan. In the next few years, a new rival shows up and that was the  Taliban . In 1996, the Taliban eradicates Burhanuddin Rabbani too from the throne. Let's now see who were the Taliban. In the Pashtun language, the word Taliban means students. Initially, Mullah Omar was ...

Afghanistan's Invasion 1979, and afterward  “Taliban’s capture over Kabul” “Afghanistan will now enforce sharia law in the country” “Taliban to form a new government in Afghanistan” You all must have already heard all the news about the Taliban by now. Today we'll open this black chapter of history. So, to understand the story well, let's go back to the year 1979. In 1979, Afghanistan’s president and communist leader Nur Muhammad Taraki was killed by another communist leader Hafeez Ullah Amin . Though Taraki himself wasn’t a saint either, as he had first tried to kill Hafeez Ullah . Nur Muhammad Taraki Hafeez Ullah Amin This happened because the communist party divided into two parts in Afghanistan. Here a dispute took place between communism and Islam meanwhile neighboring country Iran was facing a similar issue i.e., the dispute between communism and Islam which eventually lead to a revolution in Iran. In this revolution, the Islamic people killed the communist l...