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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Second Edition

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by Ahmed Rashid


  Afghan conflict

  aid for Hikmetyar's Hizbae-Islami party

  Arab-Afghans

  Bin Laden

  Central Asian Republics

  Council of the Assembly of Senior Ulema

  foreign policy

  funds to Mujaheddin

  Intelligence Service

  Iran relations

  madrassas funds

  Red Crescent

  relations with Central Asia

  Royal Family

  Talibans

  ulema

  US relations

  Wahabbi creed

  Save the Children

  Sayyaf, Abdul Rasul

  Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Relations for South Asia

  Sergeyev, Igor

  Sestanovich, Stephen

  Sevan, Benon

  Shad, Queen Gowhar

  Shafiq, Mohammed Musa

  Shah, King/ex-King Zahir

  Shah, Taimur

  Sharia

  courts

  law

  Sharif, Prime Minister Nawaz

  Afghan cease-fire

  government (1990–93)

  Muslim League

  Talibans

  Sharjah

  Sheikh, Najmuddin

  Sher, Ahmed

  Shevardnadze, Eduard

  Shias

  Afghans

  Hazaras

  Iran

  Islam

  Muslims

  Persia

  and Sunnis war

  Shiberghan

  Shiism

  Shindand

  Shomali valley

  Shorish-Shamley, Zieba

  Sikhs

  Silk Route

  Simmons, Tom

  Sind

  Sipah-e-Sahaba party (SSP)

  Soderberg, Nancy

  Sony

  South Asia

  Southern Afghanistan

  Soviet

  invasion of Afghanistan (1979)

  Red Army

  Spetsnatz (Special Forces)

  Union

  withdrawal (1989)

  Special Services Group

  Spin Baldak, Afghanistan

  Sri Lanka

  Stalin, Joseph

  Stanakzai, Sher Mohammed

  Starobin, Paul

  State Bank of Afghanistan

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island

  Sudan, National Islamic Front

  Sufism

  suicide bombers

  Sunni

  Arabia

  fundamentalism

  Hanafis

  Islam

  Pashtuns

  Supreme Council for the Defence of the Motherland

  Sureda, Jose Louis

  Swati Taliban

  Swat valley

  Swedish Committee

  Tacitus (Roman historian)

  Taggert, Chris

  Taimur (Tamerlane)

  Tajikistan

  Afghanistan border

  CIA attack

  conflict

  heroin addiction

  Masud

  Pashtun alliance

  Tashkent meeting

  Uzbek-Hazara alliance

  Tajiks

  Takhar province

  Talbott, Strobe

  Talibans

  airforce and airport operations

  Ashkhabad talks

  attacks against presidential candidates

  ban on opium production

  casualties

  control of Afghanistan

  culture

  fiefdoms

  gender policies

  government

  governors

  international relations

  ISI clandestine support to

  Islamic

  code

  Kunduz expeditionary force

  leaders

  meeting with anti-Taliban Alliance

  military campaign by

  military committee in Quetta

  mullahs

  origins of

  pipeline

  political and military organisation

  prisoners

  Rabbani, Mullah Mohammed

  religious police

  resurgence (2000–09)

  as role model for Islamic extremism

  Shuras

  source of funding for

  as strategic allies of Pakistan

  suicide attacks

  Sunni fundamentalism

  Supreme Court

  in Swat valley

  US bombing raids on

  use of IEDs and suicide bombers

  see also Afghan Taliban; anti-Taliban alliance; Bin Laden; Central Asian Taliban; Dostum, General; Indian Taliban; Mazar-e-Sharif; Pakistan; Saudi Arabia; United States (US)

  Tanai, General Shahnawaz

  Tanzania, US embassy bombing

  TAP Pipelines

  Taraki, President Nur Mohammed

  Tariaqath

  Tarinkot (Urozgan province)

  Tashkent

  Tashkhorgan

  Taxas District Court

  Tazim Nifaz Shariat-i-Mohammedi in Bajaur Agency

  Tehran

  see also Iran

  Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)

  Tehrik-i-Tuleba (Movement of Taliban)

  Tenet, George

  Termez

  terrorist attacks

  by Muslim extremists

  Western retaliation to

  Timurids

  Todor, Robert

  Tomb of Ali

  Tora Bora

  Torkham

  TTP see Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)

  Turabi, Mullah

  Turabi, Nuruddin

  Turkey

  CARs

  Dostum

  pipeline project

  Turkic

  Afghanistan

  arts and architecture

  nomadic empires

  peoples

  Turki, Prince see al Faisal, Prince Turki

  Turkmen gas 173

  Turkmenistan

  gas pipeline

  heroin addiction

  US

  see also Ashkhabad; Bridas Corporation

  Uighurs

  Ukraine

  ulemas

  ul Haq, President (General) Zia

  ul Momineen, Amir

  see also Omar, Amir Mullah Mohammed

  ul Muslimeen, Ikhwan

  Ummah

  UNESCO

  UNICEF

  United Arab Emirates

  United Front see Northern Alliance (NA)

  United Islamic and National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan

  United Nations (UN)

  Afghanistan

  agencies

  aid agencies

  Aid programmes

  Charter

  Drugs Control Programme (UNDCP)

  Group of Concerned Countries

  High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

  humanitarian aid agencies

  investigations

  Islamabad

  mediation

  officials, Kabul

  peace-making

  Security Council

  Special Representative for Afghanistan see Brahimi, Lakhdar

  staff

  United States (US)

  Afghan policy

  Agency for International Development

  Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia see Raphel, Robin

  attack

  Bin Laden

  Central Asian policy

  CIA

  Congress

  Consulate in Calcutta

  counternarcotics strategy

  Drugs Enforcement Administration (DEA)

  embassy bombing

  feminist groups

  Foreign Oil Companies group

  Iran relations

  Mujaheddin

  narcotics policy

  oil companies

  Pakistan relations

  pipeline plans

>   policy to Afghanistan-Pakistan-Iran-Central Asia region

  pressure

  Saudi Arabia relations

  Senate

  State Department

  Talibans (1997–99)

  Turkmenistan

  University of Omaha Centre of Afghanistan Studies

  Unocal (US), Central Asian Oil Pipeline Project (CAOPP)

  UN Security Council

  Urozgan province

  Usmani, Mullah Akthar

  US Special Operations Forces

  Uzbekistan

  Afghanistan border

  Dostum

  heroin addiction

  lease of airbases to US forces

  Tashkent meeting

  Uzbeks

  clan history

  commanders

  exiles in FATA

  fighters

  forces

  leadership

  massacres (1998)

  Shaybani Khans

  Uzbek-Tajik-Hazara alliance

  Velayti, Ali Akbar

  Vendrell, Francesc

  Vietnam

  Vyakhirev, Rem

  Wahab, Abdul (1703–1792)

  Wahabbis

  ulema

  Wahabbism

  Wahadat see Hizb-e-Wahadat party

  Wais, Mir

  Wakil, Mullah

  Wali, Abdul

  Wali, Mahmud Ibn

  Wali, Simi

  Wardak province

  Washington

  Unocal

  Washington Post

  Western humanitarian aid agencies

  Witschi-Cestari, Alfredo

  World

  Bank

  Food Programme (WFP)

  Muslim League

  Trade Center

  Trade Organisation

  Xinjiang province

  Yeltsin, President Boris

  Yousufzai, Rahimullah

  Yuldeshev, Tohir

  Zabul province

  Zardari, President Asif Ali

  Zia, President see ul Haq, President (General) Zia

  Zohra, Bibi

  Zoroastrianism

  Zubaydah, Abu

 

 

 


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