The prodigious campaign of Taliban has emerged as the gravest threat to political stability, social harmony, and economic growth of Pakistan while weakening the contemporary political, social and economic structure of the country. In this way, the combination of religious orthodox and Islamic militancy has emerged as one of the potential challenges for Islamabad. The growing Islamic vigilance i...

Afghanistan is in danger of capsizing in a perfect storm of insurgency that mimics operations and tactics witnessed in Iraq. This article assesses this insurgency and the re-emergent Taliban. The common view of the Taliban as simply a radical Afghan Islamist movement is overly simple, for that organization has been able to build on tribal kinship networks and a charismatic mullah phenomenon to ...

How are civilian attitudes toward combatants affected by wartime victimization? Are these effects conditional on which combatant inflicted the harm? We investigate the determinants of wartime civilian attitudes towards combatants using a survey experiment across 204 villages in five Pashtun-dominated provinces of Afghanistan — the heart of the Taliban insurgency. We use endorsement experiments ...

following the september 11th events when the united states managed to forge an international coalition against terror within the framework of operation enduring freedom, attacking afghanistan, the general perception was that the united states would be able soon to destroy the taliban in afghanistan and remove the shades of war and insecurity from afghanistan. however what occurred was the colla...

Case in point: The nonsense known as Creationism. I admit that I teach physics, and I do not have much interest in biology or medicine. Nonetheless, I know the difference between biology and bull. I am amazed at how many science students enter our university without the slightest knowledge of what Darwinian evolution is or what it means. It would seem that the American Taliban who wish to repla...

Though Western analysts tend to mention al-Qaida and Taliban in Pakistan in the same context, the dynamics of their relationship are far more complex than a cursory examination would reveal. The context of this relationship is best understood within the overarching paradigm of militant activities of post 9/11 Taliban and al-Qaida remnants in Pakistan's tribal areas, where these groups flourish....

You have asked for our Office’s views concerning the status of members of the Taliban militia under Article 4 of the 1949 Geneva Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (“GPW”). Assuming the accuracy of various facts provided to us by the Department of Defense (“DoD”), we conclude that the President has reasonable factual grounds to determine that no members of the Taliba...

the taliban emerged in 1994 as one of the important phenomena in contemporary political history of afghanistan, south western asia, middle east and islamic world. taliban initially demanded the unity of the country and elimination of local authoritarian rulers and rogue groups to provide stability in afghanistan. but after the initial successes, they declared their goals as a shari'a -base...