Where did the Taliban people come from?

Answer 1

The Taliban is not a 'people' it is not a religious/political party in Afghanistan as claimed or labled.

TALIBAN simply means STUDENT

Taliban were never know in the west before 9-11. A brief history of taliban is as follows> Sometime in 1999 to 2000 before so called Taliban came in power in Afaganistan the country was ruled and governed by few power full TRIBES of each area. Looting, robbery, rape, bribes were an every day issues for the POOR.

It took a dramatic change when a local girl was raped in day light and when the family complained to the local police station they were kicked out and given more abuse, and at this point the family went to the local Mosque and asked for the help of the IMAM (leader of the mosque). The local Imam together with his students(as know TALIBAN) caught the offenders( the rapist) and they were punished.

Now it was history any person who could not get justice from the govertment would approach the Imam and would get justice.

This justice spread through whole of AFAGANISTAN with in two years of its first case being brought to the local Imam and as from this day the students became to be known as TALIBAN.

A RECENT VISIT TO AFAGANISTAN BY JASON BURKE FROM GUARDIAN NEWS PAPER DESCRIBES HIS VISIT>

'When the Taliban were in power, you could drive all the way to Kandahar [Afghanistan's second city, 250 miles away] with a bag of money and no one would touch you,' he said. 'Now the government are thieves. Since 2001 nothing has changed, except security is worse.'

The only cases that come before Amanullah Ishaqzai, a government judge in Wardak, are those which require an official stamp or disputes among the province's mainly Shia Muslim Hazara ethnic minority, who have historically suffered at the hands of the Sunni Pashtun tribes who make up the bulk of the Taliban. Most of the province's 800,000 inhabitants, mainly peasants, go to the insurgents for rough but often effective justice.

'I can't blame them,' Ishaqzai said. 'A court case in the government system takes five years and many bribes. The Taliban will settle it in an afternoon.'

Every villager has stories of how the Taliban settle the myriad property disputes which mark Afghan society. In scores of cases, Ishaqzai said, he had convened a traditional tribal council with an Islamic scholar as a judge rather than send cases to higher courts. 'That way at least they get a decision,' he said. The clerics involved are often senior Taliban commanders.

It is not just civil cases. According to Mohammed Musa Hotak, an MP from Wardak, the Taliban arrived in a village in the southern district of Jalreez last week, arrested three well-known thieves, tarred their faces and paraded them as 'an example.

A government minister talked of how in his own village earlier this month a shopowner had complained to the Taliban after being robbed and had got his goods back after the insurgents simply circulated a 'night letter', one of the pamphlets that have been the Afghan insurgents' favoured means of communication for decades, saying that they knew the thief and would hang him publicly. A second shopkeeper who went to the local authorities obtained nothing but a beating when he belatedly asked the insurgents' help