The Afghanistan Wars - William Maley

UN political activity in Afghanistan. However, on 21 December 1993, the General Assembly in Resolution 48/208 requested the Secr ...

the UN Security Council issued a statement welcoming ‘the acceptance by the warring parties and other Afghan representatives of ...

passages hostile to Rabbani and Massoud were crossed out, but remained clearly legible, including a recommendation for ‘challen- ...

states in prolonging the Afghan conflict: without some understand- ings to insulate Afghan politics from wider regional rivalrie ...

never lost sight of their duty to assist ordinary Afghans, there were also some who were singularly unattractive: one such minis ...

Others simply viewed Rabbani and Massoud as ineffectual, although the irony of Pushtuns blaming Tajiks for not suppressing preda ...

the political abyss into which he had been thrust by the Taliban in February 1995. It also embarrassed the Taliban’s Pakistani s ...

This came at a time when the government’s position was increasingly stretched. When the communist regime fell, Massoud, alone am ...

10 The Rise and Rule of the Taliban, 1994–2001 On the morning of 27 September 1996, the residents of Kabul awoke to a grisly spe ...

Afghanistan, and their pattern of rule was one of the strangest to be witnessed in the modern world, perhaps because it was so d ...

should be free of factions’ (BBC Newshour, 4 October 1996). This was true only in the sense that she wanted a pro-Pakistan facti ...

The very next day, a group of Taliban, well armed with weapons obtained from the Pasha arms depot on 12 October (Davis, 1998: 46 ...

As many as 30 trucks a day crossed the border into Afghanistan ‘carrying artillery shells, tank rounds, and rocket-propelled gre ...

Glatzer, 1997; Maley, 1998c; Marsden, 1998; Rashid, 2000; Griffin, 2001). The Taliban were notsimply an example of vil- lagers c ...

Widely recognised as deputy leader of the Taliban, and in the view of some a moderating influence, was Mulla Muhammad Rabbani (n ...

victims of the Soviet–Afghan war, and their inadequate socialisation in significant measure accounted for their ability to do th ...

general they were neither of high social status nor central to day- to-day politics. In Pakistan, however, where the Taliban mov ...

occupation of Kabul: Washington DC. Yet this was not the case. Some saw in it an opportunity: Zalmay Khalilzad, who was to be se ...

to know them and you find they really have a great sense of humour’ (Mackenzie, 1998: 97). The Clinton Administration’s position ...

Kabul. The second was the Hazarajat region. And the third was Dostam’s fiefdom based on Mazar-e Sharif. Dostam, in an act of alm ...