"Credibility of a person who has been under detention becomes questionable and I don't think Mullah Baradar can make a difference even if were able to reintegrate into the
Taliban movement," the former ambassador commented.
The first involves a description of the underlying history of Afghanistan and Central Asia that gave rise to the
Taliban movement and limited its effectiveness as an "Afghan" or a distinctly Pashtun initiative.
The chief of district police, Wali Dad, said that Australian soldiers had beaten the Afghan guards after vociferous clashes in a military camp in Orkazan district and that the angered guards set the security towers afire and joined the
Taliban movement, and carried weapons and ammunitions with them.
He was part of an operation to disrupt
Taliban movement in the region.
This explains President Barack Obama's decision to begin withdrawing his troops next July, and to prepare for this by increasing the number of troops and beginning to contact the
Taliban movement, or one of its wings, in order to ensure an "honorable" withdrawal and to keep Hamid Karzai, or another of those loyal to Washington, in the seat of power.
He specifically threatened to target Baitullah Mahsud, the self-declared commander of PakistanCOs
Taliban movement, who has boasted of sending fighters into Afghanistan.The comments were the Afghan leaderCOs sharpest warning yet to PakistanCOs new leadership, which has been conducting negotiations with Islamic militants, including Mahsud, based in the tribal areas adjoining the border.In response to the warning, Pakistan said it would consider any such strike by foreign forces inside its territory a violation of its sovereignty.
The extremist
Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the attack which they said showed their ability to strike "wherever we want to" but saw three gunmen shot dead by security forces, the defence ministry said.
Iran now has the opportunity to benefit from the defeat of the
Taliban movement in Afghanistan and from the ouster of Saddam Hussein, if US President George W.
Reaping the Whirlwind: The
Taliban Movement in Afghanistan by Michael Griffin Pluto.
Islamabad has close ties with the Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest ethnic grouping, and insists that they must have a major role in any future government in Kabul even though it was from the Pashtuns that the
Taliban movement emerged.
In Kandahar, the birthplace of the
Taliban movement, a delegation of tribal leaders was trying to negotiate a transfer of power, Afghan sources in neighbouring Pakistan said.
It was this environment of lawlessness that gave birth to the
Taliban movement in 1994.