after the collapse of Moscow's Marxist government in 1991. Islamic factions, which had united to

expel the Russian occupiers in 1992, began to fight among themselves when it became apparent

that post-communist coalition governments could not overcome the deep-rooted ethnic and

religious differences of the members. It was in this atmosphere of economic strife and civil war

that a fundamentalist band of religious students emerged victorious. By 1996, this group, the

Taliban, ruled 90% of the country with a controversial holy iron hand.

The other 10% of the country is tenaciously held by minority opposition groups led by

president Rabbani and military commander Ahmed Shah Massoud and aided by foreign Taliban

adversaries. This Northern Alliance shares critics' objections to the Taliban's extreme

fundamentalist methods and especially scorns Pashtun ethnic chauvinism.

Today only Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia recognize the Taliban

as Afghanistan's legitimate ruling party. The United Nations still considers Massoud head of

State, the US advocates a broad based government and others favor Rabbani, Zahir Shah,

recycled from old Korans and lower level windows must be blackened to prevent males from

newspaper in 199_. The Taliban emerged in early 1994 from the Sunni religious schools

women observe the new rules, the Taliban have employed a moral police force (Agents for the

97% of Afghan women surveyed by Physicians for Human Rights exhibit signs of

The Taliban claim to follow a pure, fundamentalist Islamic ideology, yet the oppression

government or non-government violence against our organisation (assassination of our

swept through south-western Afghanistan, and arrived in Herat, close to the Iranian border,

through Afghanistan. The Taliban stood to gain $100 million a year from this pipeline. UNOCAL

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