HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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the government of Iraq
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the government of Kuwait
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a group of radical Muslims
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a part of the United Nations
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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: -The Taliban faced significant resistance, especially after it asserted its own interpretation of law and order. It combined a strict religious ideology-a mixture of Deobandi traditionalism and Wahhābī puritanism-with a conservative Pashtun social code (Pashtunwali) to create a brutally repressive regime.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some Taliban members have been former followers of Sufism. But the Taliban’s strict interpretation of Islam is opposed to mystical forms of the faith.
Detailed explanation-4: -Only three countries – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government in Kabul. The group, whose name means “seekers of religious knowledge, ‘’ sprang up from ultra-conservative religious schools in refugee camps in Pakistan.