The Taliban is a group of people in Iraq that believe that Afghanistan is better off without western influence. The believe in corporal punishments and not engaging in frivolous activities.
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To answer your direct question, a literal translation of Talib or Taleb is "A Person in need (of something)" in Arabic. It is popularly used for 'student.' The normal plural would be 'tullab' in Arabic but the Pashto plural is to ...
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They are in Afghanistan, their home country. The USA interfered with Afghanistan in the 1970s. The democratically elected government was improving education for both boys and girls, and bringing in other social reforms. So the US supplied w...
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The Taliban gained power in Se ptember 1996
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This is from a Washington Post article from 2001: "The Taliban's rise from an obscure organization born in the religious schools of Pakistan's refugee camps on its Afghan border to become sponsor of one of the world's most extensive tr...
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Talib is a student in arabic and Taliban has nothing to do with the word talib.. iam arabic and i dnt know what taliban means. i think its afghani word
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Many are recruited by the Taliban from towns that were torn apart during NATO raids. Many have no crops left and are desperate.
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