On the eve of 75th Indian independence day ,15th August, 2021,, Taliban entered Kabul, the Afghan capital .
But who is Taliban, What is Taliban and what’s its history?
So here it is, according to wikipedia,
From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban held power over roughly three-quarters of Afghanistan, and enforced a strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law.
The Taliban emerged in 1994 as one of the prominent factions in the Afghan Civil War and largely consisted of students (talib) from the Pashtun areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan who had been educated in traditional Islamic schools, and fought during the Soviet–Afghan War.
Under the leadership of Mohammed Omar, the movement spread throughout most of Afghanistan, shifting power away from the Mujahideen warlords. The totalitarian Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was established in 1996 and the Afghan capital was transferred to Kandahar. It held control of most of the country until being overthrown after the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in December 2001 following the September 11 attacks. At its peak, formal diplomatic recognition of the Taliban’s government was acknowledged by only three nations: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
The group later regrouped as an insurgency movement to fight the American-backed Karzai administration and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF ) in the War in Afghanistan.
If we talk about what actually the Taliban is then
The Taliban, which refers to itself as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamist movement and military organization in Afghanistan, currently waging war within the country. Since 2016, the Taliban’s leader has been Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.
It has many followers, many opposers all because of their mindset and policies.
But whatever us happening today in Afghanistan is not a sudden attack on the country but the series of events begun in early April this year when American president Joe Biden called off the American troops from Afghanistan in stages starting from May 1 to September 11.
As American troops packed themselves, Taliban took his hand on Afghanistan and started capturing the country and assasinating innocent citizens .
Thousands of people lost their families, livelihood, Government officials fled from the country and citizens were left on the mercy of God.
And it doesn’t stops here ,
As Taliban fighters patrolled Kabul on Monday after a swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war, shocking visuals emerged of thousands of people mobbing the city’s airport in a bid to flee the group’s feared rule.
In one such horrific video that has since gone viral on social media, two people were seen falling off a giant plane that had reportedly taken off from Kabul on 16th August.
One more video shows hundreds of people running on runway just to catch the plane anyhow and save their lives.
This side another strange video came into the sensation when a female news anchor was seen interviewing a Taliban spokesperson on ToloNews yesterday. Women were absent from TV screens since August 15, the day Taliban took control over Kabul. It’s a shift from Taliban’s earlier regime in between 1996-2001 where women were not allowed to work.
In their first interaction Taliban are promising safety and work based on Islam for womes.
Another news is floating in the market where
Afghanistan’s central bank governor says that the country has some $9 billion in reserves abroad and not in physical cash inside the country. A Taliban commander and senior leader of the Haqqani Network militant group, Anas Haqqani, has met former Afghan President Hamid Karzai for talks, a Taliban official said on Wednesday, amid efforts by the Taliban to set up a government. Leaders of the Afghan Taliban will not stay in ‘shadow of secrecy’, a group official had said earlier today.
Whatever is happening in Afghanistan is something which has disturbed many lives , ended many hopes and pushed Afghanistan straight 20 years back.