Taleban were a product supported by West/the political right in the west and Pakistan military who thought that these radicals are good counterbalance to Russian influence rising from CAR have now proven that extreme religious organisations contitute the largest threat to mankind. Lets look into history, religious fanaticism is hte worst of mental illness and mankind should never support it..in any case, communists are far better than these fundos anytime any day.. Even British made this mistake..
<"Nadir Khan, the father of Zahir Shah, also entered Afghanistan from the same route in 1930," he recalled. Nadir Khan was a commander of Amanullah's army in early 1920s. But he never felt comfortable with the haste, his king wanted Afghanistan to get modernized. And, preferred to live a life of exile in Paris. Amannullah Khan established very deep political connections with the communist revolutionaries, who took over Russia in 1917. He also was very inspired with the nationalist fervour and policies, Mustafa Kamal Pasha had unleashed in Turkey after dismantling the monarchy in his country, which was sustained in the name of "Khilafat."
The British rulers could not tolerate a "radical modernizer" too close to their "jewel in the crown," the colonized India. Like the CIA of 1980s, their intelligence operatives cultivated some Afghan Mullahs to drum the impression that Amanullah was pushing their country to "infidel culture of the West." Eventually a Tajik "fundo" of those days, Bacha-e-Saqqao became the ruler of Afghanistan. Though an earlier prototype for Taliban, he wasn't acceptable to the majority of Afghans. Just because he was a Tajik and low class. The Pushtun elite began looking for a "blue blooded Durrani" as their king. And, the British cunningly prodded Nadir Khan, a cousin of Amannullah.
Nadir was encouraged to land in Waziristan, where the British political agents gathered the Loya Jirga for him. And he reached Afghanistan only after nine months of Bacha-e-Saqqao's rule. But, before taking the throne of Kabul he had to accept some noted and rich Ulema (the Muslim religious scholars) as legitimate partners of the ruling elite. He got murdered within three years of his rule which brought Zahir Shah on the scene in 1933, who got deposed and exiled in 1973 after forty years of a dormant ruling. >
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