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TALIBAN ~ 80Taliban to replace local Governors; they protested the conscription drive !by the Taliban and the sharp rise in taxes, money that was being sent to •Kabul rather than being used for local relief. On 27 January, over 2,000people held an unprecedented anti-Taliban rally in Khost. The droughtand the Taliban's insistence on continued fighting increased public criticism.Smugglers and transporters blamed the Taliban for harbouring BinLaden, which had led to UN sanctions and a cutback in the smuggling jtrade. In late April the Taliban arrested the head of its air force, General jAkthar Mansuri, and ten other officials for helping Ismail Khan escape.There was also increasing hostility from neighboring countries to theTaliban's expanding support to Islamic fundamentalist and terroristmovements. The Taliban were playing host to extremist groups fromfCentral Asia, Iran, Kashmir, China and Pakistan. The Islamic Movementof Uzbekistan (IMU), which in 1999 and again in 2000 launchedabortive offensives against Uzbekistan's regime, has bases in northernAfghanistan. More than one-third of the 15,000-strong Taliban forcethat captured Taloqan was made up of non-Afghans, which included3,000 Pakistani militants, 1,000 fighters from the IMU, and several hundredArabs under Bin Laden, among others.International efforts by the US, Russia and the regional states to coordinateanti-terrorism measures were stepped up. Russia's accusationsagainst the Taliban increased dramatically after Kabul recognised thegovernment of the breakaway Republic of Chechnya and allowed theChechens to open an embassy in Kabul on 16 January 2000. After themilitary coup in Islamabad on 12 October 1999, Pakistan stepped up itssupport to the Taliban, providing increased military for its summer offensivein 2000. Pakistan remained the only country in the world supportingthe Taliban, and countries in the region became more hostile to the militaryregime.Several attempts by the UN and Organisation of the Islamic Conference(OIC) to bring the warring factions to the negotiating table failed.Francesc Vendrell, a Spanish diplomat, was appointed as the new UNSecretary General's Special Representative to Afghanistan on 18 January.In March and again in May, the OIC organised indirect talks between theTaliban and the NA in Jeddah with no outcome. Even as they appearedto be winning control of the entire country, the Taliban remained internationallyisolated and condemned as a pariah movement by all ofAfghanistan's neighbors.Part 2Islam and theTaliban
NEW STYLE FUNDAMENTALISM OF THE TALIBAN ~ 836CHALLENGING ISLAM:THE NEW-STYLEFUNDAMENTALISM OFTHE TALIBANIslam has always been at the very centre of the lives of ordinary Afgh;people. Whether it is saying one's prayers five times a day, fastingRamadan or giving zakaz - an Islamic contribution to the poor - fiMuslim peoples in the world observe the rituals and the piety of Isl;with such regularity and emotion as the Afghans. Islam has been Ibedrock for the unity of Afghanistan's diverse and multi-ethnic peoplwhile jihad has frequently provided the principle mobilizing factor "Afghan nationalism, during the resistance against the British andRussians.Rich or poor, communist, king or Mujaheddin it makes little difference.^When I met with the ageing ex-King Zahir Shah in Rome in 1988,quietly interrupted the interview so he could go into the next roompray. Communist ministers prayed in their offices. Mujaheddin warriwould break off from fighting to pray. Mullah Omar spends hours onprayer mat, often doing much of his strategic thinking after his pray
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TALIBAN ~ 80Taliban to replace local Governors; they protested the conscription drive !by the Taliban and the sharp rise in taxes, money that was being sent to •Kabul rather than being used for local relief. On 27 January, over 2,000people held an unprecedented anti-Taliban rally in Khost. The droughtand the Taliban's insistence on continued fighting increased public criticism.Smugglers and transporters blamed the Taliban for harbouring BinLaden, which had led to UN sanctions and a cutback in the smuggling jtrade. In late April the Taliban arrested the head of its air force, General jAkthar Mansuri, and ten other officials for helping Ismail Khan escape.There was also increasing hostility from neighboring countries to theTaliban's expanding support to Islamic fundamentalist and terroristmovements. The Taliban were playing host to extremist groups fromfCentral Asia, Iran, Kashmir, China and Pakistan. The Islamic Movementof Uzbekistan (IMU), which in 1999 and again in 2000 launchedabortive offensives against Uzbekistan's regime, has bases in northernAfghanistan. More than one-third of the 15,000-strong Taliban forcethat captured Taloqan was made up of non-Afghans, which included3,000 Pakistani militants, 1,000 fighters from the IMU, and several hundredArabs under Bin Laden, among others.International efforts by the US, Russia and the regional states to coordinateanti-terrorism measures were stepped up. Russia's accusationsagainst the Taliban increased dramatically after Kabul recognised thegovernment of the breakaway Republic of Chechnya and allowed theChechens to open an embassy in Kabul on 16 January 2000. After themilitary coup in Islamabad on 12 October 1999, Pakistan stepped up itssupport to the Taliban, providing increased military for its summer offensivein 2000. Pakistan remained the only country in the world supportingthe Taliban, and countries in the region became more hostile to the militaryregime.Several attempts by the UN and Organisation of the Islamic Conference(OIC) to bring the warring factions to the negotiating table failed.Francesc Vendrell, a Spanish diplomat, was appointed as the new UNSecretary General's Special Representative to Afghanistan on 18 January.In March and again in May, the OIC organised indirect talks between theTaliban and the NA in Jeddah with no outcome. Even as they appearedto be winning control of the entire country, the Taliban remained internationallyisolated and condemned as a pariah movement by all ofAfghanistan's neighbors.Part 2Islam and theTaliban
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