Who is Taliban? From where does Taliban get money and power
By Lokmat English Desk | Published: August 16, 2021 06:22 PM2021-08-16T18:22:16+5:302021-08-16T18:22:16+5:30
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While India was celebrating its 75th Independence Day on August 15, the Taliban entered Kabul, Afghanistan. After this, the President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani left the country. Ashraf Ghani is currently at the American airbase in Oman, and will soon return to the United States.
Who exactly is the Taliban that has taken control of Afghanistan and is fighting a powerful superpower like the United States? Where does the Taliban get all this money from? Who supplies them? Let's find out...
US President Joe Biden has announced the withdrawal of his troops, as well as the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), from Afghanistan (Afghanistan Taliban Crisis) and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
When the Soviet Union deployed troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s, it was the United States that trained and trained the mujahideen there. The rise of the Taliban under US influence in North Pakistan in the 1990s.
Members of the Taliban were educated in madrassas in Pakistan. Pakistan is said to be helping the Taliban in the ongoing war. In Pashtun, Taliban means student. In 1994, Omar founded the Taliban in Kandahar.
Civil war broke out in Afghanistan after Soviet troops withdrew. So, on the other hand, instability, crime and corruption plague ordinary Afghan citizens. At that time, the Taliban promised to bring good days to the people.
In September 1995, the Taliban took control of Herat province, which borders Iran. He then took control of Kandahar the following year. The capital then took control of Kabul. The Taliban ousted President Burhanuddin Rabbani.
Al Qaeda carried out a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in the United States in September 2001. The mastermind of the attack, Osama bin Laden, was sheltered by the Taliban. The United States has demanded that bin Laden be extradited to Taliban.
According to a NATO report, the Taliban has become stronger than ever. There are about 85,000 terrorists in the Taliban. Two decades later, the United States announced its withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Taliban called the US announcement their victory.
The Taliban are working on a strategy to re-establish power in Afghanistan. However, there have been reports of significant changes in the Taliban and its insurgents. This change was due to the large amount of wealth the Taliban had.
In 2016, Forbes released a list of the ten richest terrorist organizations in the world. ISIS was in the first place. The organization had an annual turnover of तब्बल 2 billion. The Taliban is fifth on the list.
According to a confidential NATO report, the Taliban's annual budget in 2019-20 was 1.6 billion. This means that the Taliban's revenue has increased by 400 percent compared to 2016. Also, the Taliban's plan to build an independent army.
According to the report, in the fiscal year 2019-20, the Taliban earned ४ 464 million from mining, ६ 416 million from drug trafficking, २४ 240 million from foreign donations, १६ 160 million from ransom and ८० 80 million from real estate.
By 2020, the Taliban's foreign donations had fallen to 15 percent of total revenues. The Taliban wants to overthrow the Afghan government and re-impose strict Islamic law. On the education of women and girls while in power, he served.
