Taliban is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist and Pashtun nationalist militant political movement in Afghanistan. In this PPT the Criminology behind its emergence is discussed.

1. TALIBAN EMERGENCE AND CRIMINALITY BEHIND
TALIBANI MINDSET.
Name – Pranjal Chaturvedi
Course – B.A.LL.B
Semester – 7th
System Id - 2018003073

2. ANTECEDENT’s OF TODAYS DAY AFGHANISTAN
• Archaeological evidence indicates that urban civilization began in the region
occupied by modern Afghanistan between 3000 and 2000 B.C.
• Fifty-thousand-old artifacts have been found in Afghan caves. A 22,000-year-old
stone head was unearthed by archeologist at Aq Krupuk.
• Five-thousand-year -old villages have been excavated by archeologists.
• Link with Hinduism
• Attachment with Buddhist Thought.
• The two great sandstone Buddhist Monuments,
“Bamian to Balkh”

3. HISTORY OF CONQUEST IN AFGHANISTAN
• Afghanistan, was conquered by Darius I of Babylonia circa 500 B.C.
• Alexander the Great of Macedonia in 329 B.C.,
• Mahmud of Ghazni, an 11th century conqueror who created an empire from Iran to Northern India,.
• Genghis Khan took over the territory in the 13th century
• During the 19th century, Britain, looking to protect its Indian empire from Russia, attempted to annex Afghanistan,
resulting in a series of British-Afghan Wars (1838-42, 1878-80, 1919-21).
• Even Indian King Ranjeet Singh.

4. BACKGROUND OF EMERGENCE OF TALIBAN
• Britishers won over Afghanistan in 1838. (From Emir Dost Mohammad to Shah Suja).
• First Anglo Afghan War (1848).
• Second Anglo Afghan War (1878 – 1880).
• Third Anglo Afghan War (1919)
• In 1921, The British, beleaguered in the wake of World War - I, are defeated in the
Third British-Afghan War (1919-21).
Alexander Burnes and his memoir, Travels into Bokhara, was a bestseller when it was first
published in 1835.

5. • 1934, The United States formally recognizes Afghanistan.
• 1953, The pro-Soviet Gen. Mohammed Daoud Khan, cousin of the king,
becomes prime minister and looks to the communist nation for economic
and military assistance.
• In 1956, Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev agrees to help
Afghanistan, and the two countries become close allies.
BACKGROUND OF EMERGENCE OF TALIBAN

6. BACKGROUND OF EMERGENCE OF TALIBAN
• In 1973 Mohammed Daoud Khan overthrows the last king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, in a
military coup. Khan’s regime, the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan, comes to power.
Khan abolishes the monarchy and names himself president. The Republic of Afghanistan is
established with firm ties to the USSR.
• In 1978 a Communist Leader Gets Killed in Afghanistan, and it turned a tipping point,
Mohammed Daoud Khan got killed in a communist coup, known as “SOUR
REVOLUTION”. Nur Mohammad Taraki, takes control of the country as president, and
Babrak Karmal is named deputy prime minister, and reforms again takes place.

7. • Nur Mohammad Taraki, was assassinated in 1979,
by (communist leader) Hafizullah Amin (Change in
Character).
• Begin of an armed revolt in the countryside
(Afghanistan) by Mujahidin.
• American Ambassador Adolph Dubs is killed. The
United States cuts off assistance to Afghanistan.
• Osama bin Laden and 15 other Islamists form the
group Al-Qaida, or “the base”, to continue their
jihad, or holy war, against the Soviets and other who
they say oppose their goal of a pure nation governed
by Islam.
• The USSR Invades Afghanistan on Dec. 24 to
bolster the faltering communist regime
RADICAL ISLAMIC FORCES IN ACTION

8. • Babrak Karmal was appointed as Prime Minister of Afghanistan, by USSR.
• AID to The Mujahedeen to fight against USSR. (British / Pakistan / Saudi Arabia)
RADICAL ISLAMIC FORCES IN ACTION

9. Withdrawal of six Soviet regiments from
Afghanistan began October 15, 1986.
This official Soviet picture shows units
of the first tank regiment to leave the
country beginning their withdrawal.
- Photo provided by REUTERS/APN
• 1992, Oust of Najibullah from power. Ahmad Shah Masood, legendary guerrilla leader, leads
the troops into the capital.
• Newly formed Islamic militia, the Taliban, rises to power on promises of peace. Most
Afghans, exhausted by years of drought, famine and war, approve of the Taliban for
upholding traditional Islamic values.
• Al-Qaida Shifting focus to America.

10. How Afghanistan was during Dr. Mohammad Najibullah, who had
been elected president of the puppet Soviet state in 1986.

11. How Afghanistan was during Dr. Mohammad Najibullah, who
had been elected president of the puppet Soviet state in 1986.
The Hippie Trail is the name given to the overland journey taken by members of the
hippie subculture and others from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s between Europe and
South Asia, mainly through Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal.

13. AFGHANISTAN as was UNDER TALIBAN
In 1992 The Mujahedeen and other rebel groups, with the aid of turncoat government
troops, storm the capital, Kabul.
Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan.
• The word Taliban comes from
tālib, "student" in Arabic, as the
group was started by Pakistani
religious school students in the mid-
1990s.

14. THE TALIBAN OUTLAWED –
 Cultivation of poppies for the opium trade,
 Crack down on crime,
 Curtail the education and employment of women.
 Women are required to be fully veiled and are not
allowed outside alone.
 Islamic law is enforced via public executions and
amputations.
 It was illegal to be clean shaved.
 Adult Women’s were not allowed to leave home
without men’s.
 Cinema, Music, Dance and Artistic work was
Banned.

15. 9/11 a UNFATEFUL DAY

16. US STOOD TO CONDUCT ELECTIONS AND ESTABLISH A DEMOCRATIC
FORM OF GOVERNMENT AND TO NEUTRALIZE TALIBAN.

18. • Trump Signals Prolonged Afghan War - President Trump outlines his Afghanistan policy in an
address to troops in Arlington, VA, saying that though his “original instinct was to pull out,”
he will instead press ahead with an open-ended military commitment to prevent the
emergence of “a vacuum for terrorists.” Differentiating his policy from Obama’s, Trump says
decisions about withdrawal will be based on “conditions on the ground,” rather than arbitrary
timelines.
WITHDRAWL OF TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN

19. GLIMPSE OF TODAYS DAY AFGHANISTAN
 Current Situation of Afghanistan.
American Air-force Left
Afghanistan on 6th of July 2021.

20. TALIBAN BACK IN POWER IN AFGHANISTAN

21.  Monotheism,
 Religious Fanaticism,
 Extreme Conservatisms,
 Anti-Progressive Behavior,
 Sense of In-Security,
 Lack of Modern and Progressive Education,
 Lack of Acceptance and High level of Intolerance,
 Exclusive in Nature and Lack of Inclusive Behavior,
 Sense of Supremacy “Religious/Racial/Ethnic …..etc.”,
 Political Reason
 Slavery of Thought – “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong”
Bertrand Russell,
CRIMNALITY IN TALIBANI’S THROUGH LENSE OF
CRIMNOLOGY

22. WISH PEACE AND STABILITY IN AFGHANISTAN WITH
SPIRIT OF वसुधैव क
ु टुम्बकम