What Was the Ideology of the Taliban?

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The italiban were embarrassed by the fact that they had been created by parkestan. The first generation was not too keen to raise the question of a border or a s with other peston tribes in pakistan. But slowly that began to change, because they were very dependent on the peston populations and the in pakestan. So if you say, what was the ideology of the taliban, i would say that, principally speaking, it was a wahabi ideology,. linked very much to the sauthies and some of the religious groups in pakestsi like the germante islami.

Legendary socialist scholar Tariq Ali on the long history of Afghanistan: the 19th and early 20th-century wars against the British Empire; the communist coup, Soviet invasion, and US-backed mujahideen war; the rise of the Taliban; and the 2001 US-led NATO invasion through the recent US defeat and withdrawal. Plus, a lot about Pakistan. Pre-order Ali's forthcoming book The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold versobooks.com/books/3939-the-forty-year-war-in-afghanistan Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig and receive our weekly newsletter