Whenever Taliban is mentioned, the image of people who have guns in their hands, beards on their faces, turbans on their heads, loose-fitting salwar kurtas, who sometimes kill a comedian, sometimes someone else. Unarmed journalist.
Those who oppress women keep children away from reading and writing and are engaged in an endless battle with the modernity of the present world. It is around this image that our beliefs about the Taliban are built.
In such a situation, a natural question arises whether there is even a slight presence of progressiveness within the Taliban or not? If progressivism has little to no presence, how is it expected that the Taliban will be able to do justice to Afghanistan? How can it be said that all those countries are doing well by talking to the Taliban, which tills now consider a terrorist organization? These are questions that will be answered from here to understand what the Taliban is? What has been its history? What has changed in its approach in the present time?
Talib is derived from the word Talim. Taliban is the plural form of Talib. To acquire education is called training. Students who get education in this way are called Taliban. This is just the meaning of the word. The correct interpretation of this word can be understood from the story of the context.
The 90s in Afghanistan were a period of blood-soaked conflict between the Afghan government and the Afghan government's opponents. The Soviet Union at that time supported the Afghan government.
The opponents of the Afghan government were fighting a raid from the village countryside of Afghanistan. The nature of guerilla fighting is that even if the loser inflicts a lot of damage, he fights as long as he remains alive. Because of this indomitable militancy, the Soviet Union's army may not have won many encounters in Afghanistan. Still, it failed to eliminate the opponents of the Afghan government's village countryside.
Many families were broken in this fight. The men of Afghanistan sent women, children, and elders to Pakistan and Iran. About six million women, children, and the elderly migrated from Afghanistan between 1985 and 1990 to live in refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran. Here the men fighting against the government of Afghanistan got America's support. They forced the Soviet Union to defeat, but the endless war had turned into a civil war.
Mutual fighting started within Afghanistan itself. The people of the village countryside started fighting with the cities. Meanwhile, children living in refugee camps on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan were also growing up.
These children were also surrounded by many types of depression in their lives. Instead of getting a proper education, these children were trained in fundamentalism. About 2000, madrasas opened on the border of Pakistan with the funding of Saudi Arabia.
Where instead of educating these children, it was told that whatever is different from Islam is bad. Only this evil has to be cleaned from this world. The group of students with this thinking was called the Taliban.
Whose consciousness was developed because the evil of the world took away their home, parents, everything from them? And the purpose of his life is to fight the evil of this world till his last breath. In this way, the world's people consider fundamentalism, but the Taliban considers it to be the real education, where everything except Islam is considered bad.
The Taliban arrived in northern Pakistan after the Soviet Union left Afghanistan in the early 1990s. From about 1990 to 95, the Taliban spent time fighting to gain complete control of Afghanistan. During this, he worked to spread the strictest rules of Sunni Islam in Afghanistan.
The Taliban promised the common people that it would end open corruption, illegal work, and many types of conflicts in Afghanistan through Islamic law. The people were also completely tired of the endless fighting. That too began to be governed by Islamic law. He completely trusted the Taliban.
In 1998, the Taliban captured 90 percent of Afghanistan's territory. The Taliban began to enforce Sharia law strictly. Forced to adopt strict social policies. In the name of justice, barbaric acts started happening on the part of the Taliban. There were many restrictions on women.
Make a rule that women will not go out alone with a man. The man has to keep his beard extended to a certain length. Singing, dancing, and cinema will be completely banned in society. If anyone breaks the rules, he will be punished in front of a huge crowd. If women did not wear the prescribed dress, they would be punished in front of a large crowd.
After that, the incident of 9/11 happened. Leading the NATO members, the US attacked the Taliban from Afghanistan. An interim government was formed in Afghanistan with American help. Whose character was democratic only on paper.
The Taliban went into the village countryside of Afghanistan. From there, he started fighting raids against the American army and Afghan military forces. The advantage of this fight was that America waged war in the name of ending the Taliban and terrorism, but none of this happened.
The American army, which came far away from America, in present Afghanistan, only based on technology and weapons, is now forced to flee from Afghanistan, stating the purpose of winning the war against terrorism. US forces are leaving Afghanistan without establishing any governance structure. Talking to the Taliban, but not asking them how they will rule Afghanistan. Do they even have some concept or not?
The recent situation is such that most of the parts have been captured by the Taliban except for a few urban areas of Afghanistan. Almost all the experts say that only the Taliban is going to rule Afghanistan in the coming time. So all those countries who can be directly and indirectly affected by Afghanistan are talking to the Taliban.
But in the midst of all these talks, the question arises whether there are points of change within the Taliban that will give confidence that it will give Afghanistan a decent future?
Carter Malkasian is a former consultant to the United States. His statement has been printed in the media on the Taliban's stand. He says the Taliban is an inexplicable puzzle. It is difficult to predict what he will do and what he will not. But the one thing that has stayed with him since his birth is his belief in Islamic law.
Willingness to enforce it by any means. Completely blind devotion towards their culture, customs, and traditions. It is still his central element. The entire Taliban group is governed by hard-line religious scholars. He may be talking about changing his image in the world, and the world is also hoping that his image is changing, but the reality is that his central element is Islamic law and law.
Antonio Guestezzi, a member of the Royal United Service Institute in London, believes that the leaders who are currently talking to the world fraternity on behalf of the Taliban are a bit soft-spoken. By their behavior, they are creating hope for the future. But the top leaders of the Taliban are much more controversial. Too many extremists. The world fraternity also considers him to be associated with terrorism, extremism, and extremism.
Reports from organizations such as the International Crisis Group and the United States Institute of Peace talk about the emergence of a new Taliban. According to these reports, the Taliban has softened in its stance.
It is also trying to bring itself within international human rights laws. It is also getting ready to be soft on its customs and traditions. Being a little liberal on the issue of women. Planning to work closely with NGOs in the field of education and health. In the year 1990, under the foreign policy, it made the mistake that it got recognition only from Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia and did not care about other countries.
Rather, this time he is ready to talk to every country. The report also states that since 2014, the Taliban have been in talks with UN officials on minimizing civilian casualties and maximizing humanitarian benefits.
Some such reports have also come from the ground of Afghanistan that the Taliban has been a little liberal towards women. The girls are going to school. Women are also stepping out of the house without any male partner. But this is not true of every district ruled by the Taliban. There are only a few districts where Taliban commanders have taken a somewhat liberal approach.
Brooking University Senior Fellow Vanda Felbrown believes that even though the Taliban follow Islamic law, different areas have different rules and regulations based on different interpretations. They have no justice system. That's why in the name of justice and justice, very terrible acts are done.
The authors who wrote the book on Afghanistan say that Afghanistan is basically a masochistic society. In which women have no special respect. Those who are used as inspiration in schools are all masculine heroes. Female hatred is treated as a virtue.
The extent is that all these things are taught in the name of culture and custom. In this case, there is no difference between the urban Afghani nor the rural Afghani of the countryside. There is malice towards women in the best of good and elite families.
The area to the south and west of Afghanistan is the territory of the Pashtuns. Most of the Taliban members are Pashtuns. Who has a deep hatred for the Tajiks and Uzbeks of the north? If Taliban men take power, there will be dangerous discrimination against Tajiks and Uzbeks in the north.
Tajiks and Uzbeks are mainly residents of the cities of the north. A little generous. But this by no means means that he has moved on by completely rejecting the useless elements of his traditions and practices.
Taliban spokespersons make statements that society cannot be changed completely by suddenly applying everything from above. Its effect can be dangerous by applying pressure from above. Gradually it will be improved.
Whereas the statement of Singapore researcher Abdul Basit, who has a hold on the affairs of Afghanistan, keeps appearing in the media. Abdul Basit says that the Taliban has not yet presented any written vision or ideology on running Afghanistan. At the same time, the same Taliban rejected the constitution made through the Afghan government in the year 2004. But now then, he has not presented any vision to the world.
Why is it like this? The answer is that the Taliban is not going to deviate from Islamic law. He is not going to present any document in front of the world which decides his responsibility. Whatever is happening is an external sham being presented to the world through the Taliban. If he were earnest, he would definitely present a vision of his own.
Everything is considered bad except Islamic law. The Taliban have no moderates but a much more hardliner type of leader and a slightly less hardliner type of leader largely governed by Islamic law. Through this, they gain strength from the people. This is the most central aspect of his power. He can't leave it.
After all this description, the picture that emerges is that the Taliban is trying to trust itself, but the alert fraternity of the world is not trusting it. This community is still in fear as to what will happen to Afghanistan in the end. But in the end, it can be said that after the bad situation that America has done in Afghanistan, the prospects that are growing about Taliban, if its future is good, then it is a good thing.
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