The Taliban And The Taliban

PAKISTAN TALIBAN CURRENT PEACE NIGOTIATION

Introduction:

The Taliban arose in the fall of 1994 and sort of presented themselves as a fact on the ground in southern Afghanistan and rather quickly made contact with the Pakistan army and with the chief of its intelligence service.

There was a meeting at ISI headquarters with some of the early leaders of the Taliban not Mullah Omar, but some of his aides and the ISI chief in the late autumn of 1994. It was an introductory meeting. From that beginning, the ISI became more and more involved with the Taliban as the Taliban increased its ambitions in southern Afghanistan.

Throughout 1995, the collaboration between ISI and the Taliban increased, and it changed character. It became more and more of a direct military alliance. The ISI was itself divided in this period of the Taliban's emergence about how to conduct its policy in Afghanistan, who to favor. The ISI, during a long period of the anti-Soviet war, had been closest to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a Pashtun commander, an Islamist. But by the 1990s, Hekmatyar was no longer effective, at least in the judgment of many within ISI.

The Taliban gradually proved themselves as the better client. They became more effective militarily, and it became increasingly clear that something about their serious discipline appealed to ordinary Pashtuns, at least in the south and east of Afghanistan.

Contact with Pakistan's ISI:

During the power vacuum created by the soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, the country was torn apart by warring mujahedeen groups and the ISI of Pakistan grasped the chance to wield power in the region by fostering a previously unknown Kandahari student movement. They continued to support the Taliban, as Pakistani...

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...rime Minister Nawaz Sharif to strike a peace deal to end an insurgency that has killed thousands of people in recent years.

The Pakistani and Afghan Taliban shares a similar ideology, but the Pakistani Taliban have a separate leadership structure and focus their efforts on attacking the Pakistani government and trying to impose their harsh form of Islam in the country. The Afghan and U.S governments have held indirect talks through intermediaries with the Afghan Taliban.

3 April 2014:

Pakistan has rescued 16 captives by the agreement of Prime Minister. From them, no one is commander Taliban. Some names included in these captives are badshah gul, riazuddin etc. They all belong to Kaladam tehriq-i-taliban or taluq mehsul area. Two years ago they were caught from different tribalism regions (by khebar agency). But this news was wrong according to “Tarjuman Wazir-e-Azam.