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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory On September 27, 1996, the Taliban captured Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan
Twenty-nine years ago today, on September 27, 1996 (August 15, 1996 lunar calendar), the Taliban captured Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Taliban fighters patrolled the streets of Kabul. On the morning of September 27, 1996, Kabul, which had been besieged by the Afghan student militant Taliban for 11 months, was finally captured. After the Taliban moved into Kabul, on the one hand, they quickly established their own political institutions, established a six-member committee headed by Morwe Rabbani, officially took over various government departments in the capital, and implemented Islamic law management in the capital. On the other hand, they did not give their opponents a respite in the military. They continued to pursue the government forces led by Rabbani and Massoud and drove them to the Panjshir Valley. Kabul changed hands, and the situation in Afghanistan took a sharp turn for the worse, attracting the attention of the world and becoming the focus of international public opinion and discussion in the recent period. The Taliban, the "heroes of troubled times", was little known until 1994. But since the second half of that year, this student army has risen rapidly, forming a political armed group with 40,000 armed forces, more than 10 fighter jets and more than 200 tanks. It has now occupied 18 of the country's 31 provinces, accounting for about 70% of the country's land area. The rise of the Taliban is full of legends, but looking back at the 16 years of war in Afghanistan, especially the fact that the civil war in the past four years, it is clear that it did not fall from the sky, but was a product of the Afghan civil war. After the withdrawal of the invading Soviet army and the seizure of power by anti-Soviet forces in the spring of 1992, millions of Afghan refugees longed to return to their homes and enjoy the long-awaited peaceful and peaceful life. However, the armed groups of various factions occupied the land and fought the civil war for power and profit, causing greater losses than during the anti-Soviet struggle. The vast number of refugees still cannot return to their countries, and they dare not return to their homes. Young people, in particular, see that the future is bleak, and they are strongly dissatisfied with the armed leaders who insist on fighting the civil war. In July 1994, a regional commander of the Hekmatya faction of the Islamic Party stationed in Kandahar city led a gang of soldiers to break into houses, loot property and rape women, which aroused the anger of the general public. Mullawi Mohammed Omar, a 35-year-old local cleric who had fought valiantly in the anti-Soviet struggle, was wounded four times, and had a lot of prestige among the masses. He stood up and led a group of Islamic students to eliminate the disturbing officers and soldiers, which made the people feel good. However, the Islamic Party not only did not learn from this, but also arrested people and paid for their lives. After Omar and others were forced to transfer to Pakistan, they immediately joined forces with Islamic students among Afghan refugees, and in October of the same year, they established the Taliban in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border city of Qida. Omar was elected chairperson of the Supreme Council. At the beginning of November, a Pakistani foreign trade army bound for Central Asia was detained by Islamic Party militants in Kandahar City, Afghanistan. The Taliban took the opportunity to fight back into the country. After several battles, not only did they rescue the convoy, but they also expanded their ranks and occupied the entire city of Kandahar. Then, the Taliban captured 12 provinces in the southeastern provinces controlled by the Islamic Party in one go and sent troops to Kabul. The situation became complicated. The Taliban achieved a major victory this time with time, geography, and various factors, but its regime itself has great limitations. The Taliban has a strong fundamentalist ideology. After capturing Kabul, it announced the full implementation of Islamic law. Women must wear religious clothing and masks, and men must grow beards. All cinemas and television stations must be closed. Stealers will be mutilated, and adulterers will be stoned to death. Violators of the law will be severely punished. It is said that on the day the Islamic law was announced, two women were punished for not meeting the requirements. In particular, after the Taliban student army captured Kabul, former President Najibullah, who had taken refuge in the United Nations office in Afghanistan, was hanged and paraded in the streets. These excesses have been opposed by the international community, especially by Russia, which supports Rabbani's government. The Iranian government believes that the Taliban's capture of Kabul will not help the political solution of the Afghan problem. But Pakistan and the United States, acting in their own strategic and economic interests, support the Taliban to take power. The first issue facing the Taliban regime is how to win international recognition. From a military perspective, although the Taliban have pushed the government forces led by Rabbani and Massoud to the Panjshir Valley, everyone knows that the valley is a strategic point that is difficult to attack and easy to defend. At the beginning, the Soviet army did not take it for 10 years with all its might and indiscriminate bombardment. It seems that it is extremely difficult for the Taliban to eliminate the government forces here. After the Taliban took power by hanging the Soviet-era Afghan president Najibullah and his brother, they implemented extreme fundamentalism, requiring women to wrap themselves in robes, even to their eyes. After announcing a ban on film, television and alcohol in the western region, Taliban fighters are destroying women's clothing in Taliban-controlled areas in public with footage kept in a cinema News raw data sources → https://www.abtool.cn/today_detail/1gds.html 17WorldNews[2025.09.27-13:01] 访问:71
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