1. Background.

2. Genesis of the Taliban phenomenon.

3. The military dimension.

4. Reconciliation efforts by Rabbani’s government before the fall of Kabul.

5. The drug problem in Taliban controlled areas.

6. Pakistan’s policy towards the Taliban.

7. The roles and interests of other powers.

8.The United Nations.

9. Military balance.

10. Impact on the religion.

11. Future prospects.

Conclusion. Afterword.

Appendices: i. Biographical sketches of important personalities.

ii. The Peshawar accord.

iii. The Islamabad declaration.

iv. Text of the agreement on Narcotics control.

v. Extract from the report of the Secretary General on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace.

vi. Chronology of events.

Notes. Glossary.

Bibliography. Index.

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Been Loadin' for Bin Laden. 2.

The stakeout. 3.

The big adios. 4.

Osama slips the noose. 5.

Operation Vampire. 6.

The eye of the storm. 7.

Meeting your maker. Conclusion: chasing the Mad Mullahs.

Epilogue: a diaspora of spite. Select bibliography.

Index. "When President Bush announced in a televised speech the week after September 11 that he wanted Osama Bin Laden "dead or alive", a grieving nation seeking justice and revenge roared in approval.

Two years later, as Al Qaeda's associates mounted almost weekly attacks against U.S.

interests and Bin Laden still roamed the earth as a free man, Americans wondered why. With both the military and the media declaring the war in Afghanistan over and a resounding success, Philip Smucker examines in Al-Qaeda's Great Escape what kind of victory we can rightfully claim.

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Afghanistan’s History. 2.

The Mujahideen. 3.

The Taliban’s Islamic theology. 4.

Political infrastructure of the Taliban rule. 5.

The Taliban and economy. 6.

Social order and human rights under the Taliban. 7.

The Taliban and Afghanistan’s neighbours. 8.

Bin Laden. 9.

A word on the Taliban-UN dilemma. Conclusion.

Further reading. Index.

"Many hold the view that Islam discourages freedom of thought and action. This seems to be borne out by common perception which sees Muslims as fundamentalist, radical and militant.

In this book, M. J.

Gohari describes the rise of a controversial movement which has been widely criticized by the west: the Taliban in Afghanistan. Dr Gohari describes the historical background of the movement in Afghanistan, outlines the context for rapid ascent to power of the Taliban, explains what the movement stands for, and analyses how it affects various groups in Afghan society.

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Taliban arrives/Sreedhar. 2.

Taliban as I saw it/Rakesh Sinha. 3.

Taliban arsenal/Nilesh Bhagat. 4.

Pakistan's strategic calculus/Sreedhar. 5.

The Iran factor/Sreedhar. 6.

Troubled CIS/O.N.

Mehrotra. 7.

Indo-Afghan relations/Mahendra Ved. Appendix: Select chronology.

"In this volume an attempt has been made to put the Taliban phenomenon in perspective. Some questions it seeks to answer are: what is the Taliban? How did it originate? Who are its organizers? What is its support base-internal and external? What is it's agenda? How do the Afghans and the world at large perceive it? What is the response of Afghanistan's immediate neighbours to this phenomenon? Why is it that the Taliban has failed to gain acceptance from even the OIC, which represents the governments of Islamic nations? Why is it that NGOs and UN organizations like the UNDP and WHO may withdraw their operations from a Taliban-governed Afghanistan? What are the prospects of the Taliban's success? What would (less)

Land and the people: i. Background.

ii. Geography.

iii. People.

iv. Government.

v. Economy.

vi. Communication.

vii. Transportation.

viii. Military.

ix. Transnational issues.

2. Chronological history of Afghanistan.

3. The Soviet war in Afghanistan : history and harbinger of future war.

4. Biography of Afghan political figures.

5. Taliban in Afghanistan.

6. Osama bin Laden.

7. Mullah Muhammad Omar.

8. U.

S. under attack.

9. War events : U.

S. declares war.

10. End of the Taliban era.

11. Who will rule Kabul.

Appendices. Index.

"The book has been compiled when Afghanistan is once again passing through a most critical period of its history. In this study for the first time an attempt has been made to critically examine the genesis of crises in Afghanistan, its historical roots, conflicting geopolitical interest of big powers in the post cold war period.

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The action centres round the small independent Hindu state of Mevar in the province of Rajputana. This province was divided up into a number of lesser states, ruled over by as many independent, chivalrous and war-like chiefs who were constantly warring among themselves.

At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Babar the first Moghul invader, found them too weak and divided to oppose him. One by one, the independent states of Rajputana fell, until, at the time of Akbar’s death, every ruler except the Rana of Mevar was compelled to acknowledge the sovereignty of the Moghul Emperor at Delhi, and pay tribute to his court.

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I. The rise of the Taliban: 1.

The Rabbani government, 1992-1996/Amin Saikal. 2.

How the Taliban became a military force/Anthony Davis. 3.

Pakistan and the Taliban/Ahmed Rashid. II.

The Taliban and the world: 1. The United States and the Taliban/Richard Mackenzie.

2. Russia, Central Asia and the Taliban/Anthony Hyman.

3. Saudi Arabia, Iran and the conflict in Afghanistan/Anwar-ul-haq Ahady.

III. The Taliban and the reconstruction of Afghanistan: 1.

Dilemmas of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan/Michael Keating. 2.

Afghan women under the Taliban/Nancy Hatch Dupree. 3.

Is Afghanistan on the brink of ethnic and tribal disintegration?/Bernt Glatzer. 4.

The UN in Afghanistan: ‘Doing its best’ or failure of a mission’?/William Maley. 5.

Has Islamism a future in Afghanistan?/Olivier Roy. 6.

The future of the state and the structure of community governance in Afghanistan/M. Nazif Shahrani.

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Petroleum and war again. 2.

Geography, climate and economic conditions. 3.

Economic and social conditions. 4.

Ethnic problems in Afghanistan. 5.

History of a transit land. 6.

Battles for liberation and the Pashtun Kingdom. 7.

Reform, reaction, revolution. 8.

Freedom fighters or fanatic terrorists and ruthless mercenaries. 9.

Gorbachev’s policy and Afghanistan. 10.

The Islamic resistance. 11.

Benazir Bhutto, Islamic fundamentalists and the Taliban. 12.

Islam-in history and modern politics. 13.

Cold war II and the east. Appendices: 1.

Women’s rights in Afghanistan. 2.

Fundamentalism. 3.

Hydrocarbons in economy and politics. 4.

The oriental mode of production. 5.

The squandred cultural heritage. Epilogue hijacking a part of the cold war II.

Political actors in Afghanistan. Notes Literature.

Chronology: 1. Early times of Afghanistan.

2. Islamic middle ages.

3. The Afghan Kingdom.

4. The Musahibun dynasty.

5. PDPA and war.

Index. "Afghanistan has been in the news for some time now.

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Manifestation of this has already been felt in Bali, Delhi, Bangkok and Dhaka itself, as fundamentalist forces seek not only to further the 'clash of civilizations', but also systematically purge all forms of opposition to their agenda. A plethora of Islamist groups and personalities such as Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islam, Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh and 'Bangla Bhai' have begun to undertake action in close concert with groups such as the al-Qaeda, the Jemaah Islamiah and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (less)

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Afghanistan : land and its strategic importance. 2.

Russian intervention and emergence of Taliban. 3.

America under attack. 4.

U.S.

war machine on the move. 5.

U.K.

, U.S.

plan to topple Taliban. 6.

Bush hints at change in strategy. 7.

Confusion over next phase of war. 8.

US doubles army deployment. 9.

Northern alliance gets walk over in Kabul. 10.

Conclusion. "This work contains ten chapters having deep hearing on the nearly and recent history of Afghanistan.

The Taliban government based at Kabul was the main target on account of its political ideology which gave shelter to terrorism advocated by Osama Bin Laden who happened to target some of the important installations in some regions of U.S.

A. The socio-economic and physical loss suffered on 11, September 2001 by USA was indeed immense and after seeking goodwill and support of several countries it launched military action against the government of Afghanistan.

These chapters (less)