AFGHANISTAN-TALIBAN AND THEIR DOWNFALL 5. Geo-Strategic Importance of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is Central Asia’s land locked country‚ spread over an area of 253‚ 861 miles. Bordered on the North by the Republics of Tajikistan‚ Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan‚ North-East by the Chinese province of Sinkiang‚ on the South-East by Pakistan‚ and on the West by Iran. Afghanistan’s geopolitical importance has been that of a buffer state first between the Tsarist Russian and the British Indian Empires and
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The Taliban Afghanistan has had a rough past few decades due to the Taliban‚ who also call themselves a “political movement group.” The Taliban has made Afghanistan a very cruel place to live because of all the violence and ways the Taliban has changed the Afghanistan culture. The Taliban made the country a very scary place to live‚ as they also have access to many weapons they use to keep themselves a strong force. The Taliban has made a statement overall to the world‚ whether it is them making
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Causes Rise of the Taliban The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was part of a long term cause of the cause the of Taliban. The foreign influence that was exerted by the Soviet Union shaped the foreign and domestic policies in Afghanistan. The social and political impacts of communism and the Cold War put Afghanistan’s government in a very weak and unstable state. This made it easy for the allowing of the extremist group the Taliban to take over weaker groups and take power in 1994. Since
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Liberalism: According to liberalism prospective the Taliban came to power to bring law and order. After soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan there was a situation of chaos and there was no stable situation in Afghanistan. According to realism prospective Taliban came to power by the name of bringing order‚ norm‚ law and stability in Afghanistan. They have been used this as mean to bring trust among normal people. US‚ NATO and other larger international coalition has mandate to construct Afghanistan
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Under the Taliban rule‚ from 1991 to 2001‚ much of the Afghanistan population were heavily oppressed. The Taliban‚ formed in the early 1990’s‚ resisted the Soviet rule over the nation. As the years progressed from the fall of the Soviet Union‚ the Taliban began to seize control of territories and inflicted their governs on the people residing under their rule. Many of the laws enforced on the citizens restricted their daily lives. Men had to follow numerous guidelines for every aspect of their life
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Taliban‚ a Muslim group took control of Afghanistan’s government in 1996 to 2001. Taliban is known for publicly executing people and taking away the rights of women which including the right of education. Afghanistan under a new leadership control‚ which put the country in the worse place . The relationship broke between U.S. and Taliban after 911 when Mullah Omar providing a refuge to Osama Bin Laden. When the Taliban comes to power in Afghanistan‚ it negatively effected the people. Taliban‚ Students
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The Taliban is a religious group formed in Afghanistan in 1994 consumed of mostly Pashtuns from Afghanistan who took control of the Afghanistan government in 1996 and ruled them until the attack of September 11‚ 2001 . “The Taliban ’s promise - in Pashtun areas straddling Pakistan and Afghanistan - was to restore peace and security and enforce their own austere version of Sharia‚ or Islamic law‚ once in power (BBC News).” Members of the Taliban help out al-Qaeda‚ they are dangerous‚ and they give
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Question 1 - Silvio Berlusconi has been the Prime Minister of Italy for three times. Berlusconi is the owner of the company Media Set. He also owns an advertising and publishing company and about 50 magazines. His brother is the owner of the Italian Daily‚ one of the most read newspapers in Italy. Next to that he is the owner of the soccer club AC Milan. You can say Berlusconi is all around the country and it is difficult not noticing his influence. The power of Berlusconi
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with Taliban started with full force at the beginning of 2011 while NATO‚ Afghan Government and Taliban realized that their objectives can’t be achieved with war. A decade of war-fought with Taliban is considered not in national interest of the NATO partners since the invested financial resources did not produce the required objectives and that numbers of troops being killed are increasing every year. According to a British MP (Around 130 Billion USD is spent annually in Afghanistan). Taliban are
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In the documentary Behind Taliban Lines‚ a brave Afghan journalist named Najibullah Quraishi‚ risks his life by accepting the invitation as guest to visit the Taliban regime in northern Afghanistan. An exceptional outcome of the visit is a documentary of what the insurgents’ day-to-day lives consisted of. The events that are shown take place in the areas of Afghanistan where the Taliban forces started to increasingly run their operations against opposing forces (Doran). Beginning with the background
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