Afghanistan

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small group from the Maiwand district of southern Afghanistan, led by a group of 30 former religious students who had studied together in the provincial madrassahs from Kandahar and Helmand provinces. Their leader was a one-eyed, 35-year-old named Mullah Muhammad Omar. Businessman and former mujahedin Osama bin Laden donated around 2,000 Toyota Hiluxes and worked with the Taliban to create a speed attack. He counseled Mullah Omar on tactics, government and even policy. The Taliban's main base still remains in the Durrani and Pushtun provinces of southern Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Taliban has created a Pushtun power base that represents a group of 15 to 17 million people. Contrary to popular belief the Taliban is not a political party.
The Taliban, which is mostly ethnic Pushtuns, forces strict rules on the population (women must wear a chadari/burqa, a head to toe covering garment with a three square inch opening with mesh for vision, and men must grow beards) and restricts women’s and girls’ access to health care, employment, and ...