USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Taliban is a Sunni Islamist nationalist and pro-Pashtun movement founded in the early 1990s that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until October 2001.

Detailed explanation-2: -Under the command of Mullah Mohammad Omar, an Afghan ethnic Pashtun who had served as a junior mujahadeen commander during the anti-Soviet jihad, the Taliban swept through southern Afghanistan in 1994.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Tehrik-i-Taliban, otherwise known as the Pakistani Taliban, and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi systematically work to undermine the Government of Pakistan. Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed continue to launch attacks that risk sparking war between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Taliban, now in their third decade of existence, began as an armed group that emerged in the 1990s out of Afghanistan’s civil war. By 1996, they had come to rule most of the country.