1. Look for the better side of Taliban, who will be governing Afghanistan after 2014
after the shameful defeat and retreat of all Western forces. They spent billions of
dollars at the expense of over 8 to 10% high unemployment rate, growing
inequality in America and a constantly growing debt of trillions of dollars since
they started fighting in 2001. They had to sacrifice over 2000 soldiers’ lives for
over 13 years from 2001 to 2014 to defeat Taliban with all modern weapons and
technology. It has been a graveyard of all 3 Big Super Powers since 19th century,
Great Britain, Russia and America.
What was the secret of the success of these poor, backward people fighting Super
Powers of 20th and 21st century without modern weapons and technology? Their
FAITH and IMAN in Allah and their spirit of Jihad rescued them from the wrath of
all so-called Super Powers, who are no more Superior than Allah.
Thanks to
Hussain Khan, Tokyo

2. ARE TALIBAN REALLY BARBARIANS?
By: Hussein Khan, Tokyo
A lot of one-sided and baseless stories are being circulated against Taliban. The
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has also talked about the `mortal danger' of
Taliban and further expressed her exaggerated fear of Taliban taking over
Islamabad. Some people accuse Taliban of ¡°beheading people, denying girls of
schools, barring women from coming out, and measuring beards of men and also
burning schools and music shops.¡± That is not the real face of Taliban. The
secular opponents of Sharia and the so called liberals are misinforming and
demonizing these matters and painting a picture of Taliban as barbarians.
Based on such false accusations the war is being carried out by the US in
Afghanistan and in Pakistan aided by the Pakistan army. A vast number of
innocent civilians are being dally killed by the army which cannot locate the true
militants and therefore treats all civilians as militants. It also resulted in a huge
number of civilian exoduses from their homes to safe areas. No power in the
world history has ever succeeded in killing only the real militants in any guerilla
type of war. Always innocent civilians are killed much more than a few real
militants. The killing of such innocents provides more recruits to the resistance
movements. Such a war could not be won either by the US and NATO forces or
by the Pakistan army. Despite 8 years of high-technology war of a Super-power
like the US, Obama admits, "we are not winning in Afghanistan" against the ill-
equipped Taliban. It was for the same reason that Musharraf had to make a deal
with the so called "terrorists" after huge losses of Pakistan army. The same reason
compelled the Pakistan army and the secular provincial ANP government of
NWFP to conclude a Peace Agreement with the Taliban after 18 months of
fighting an unsuccessful guerilla war against them.
As regards the accusation about girls education, Taliban deny it both in speech as
well as through the practical execution of their policies. They had to close some
schools, both of boys and girls as well, in Afghanistan due to lack of funds. But
false propaganda is carried out against them as if they closed girls schools only.
An anti-Taliban report in the New York Times of February 14, 1996 says, "It is a

3. world where there has been a systematic drives to push women back into purdah,
the traditional Muslim arrangement that prevents them from seeing any men
outside their immediate families. Under Taliban decrees, women have been
forbidden to work outside their homes, except in hospitals and clinics, and then
only if they work exclusively with women and girls." For the Westerners and the
secular Muslims, purdah may be equal to pushing back women into illiteracy or it
may be regarded as something discouraging women from education. In Islam,
Purdah is basically to prevent the free mixing of sexes, which is the root cause of
several social evils of a modern society, leading to rape, divorce, illicit
relationships, and birth of children outside the wedlock and so on. But it is not an
impediment to women's education. Many highly-educated Muslim women today
are contributing to society with Hijab. Even in the above anti-Taliban report, it is
admitted that the women were allowed to work in hospitals and clinics. If Taliban
would have abandoned women's education and prevented them from going to
schools, from where they brought women to work in hospitals and clinics? It
indicates as to how false are the reports that Taliban are against the education of
girls and women!
No doubt, they have blasted some of the girls¡¯ schools in Swat, as they were
fighting against the Pakistan army which had made these schools its operational
bases for attacks on Taliban. Now after the peace agreement, all girls’ schools are
functioning as usual. Maulana Sufi Mohammad has not spoken anything against
girls¡¯ education. Secularists have made it their propaganda agenda to create
hatred against Sharia. The number of girls' schools destroyed by Taliban is quoted
but the readers are not informed that these schools were operational bases of the
army, which was attacking and killing them.
Taliban are blamed for usurping women's rights. Better to ask about it to a British
woman journalist, Yvonne Ridley, who was arrested by Taliban, while on
assignment with the London¡¯s Sunday Express in 2001. After her release from
the Taliban prison, she converted to Islam. What kind of impression incidents of
this nature create about Taliban? Does the barbarian behave like this? Will a
Western educated lady, a well-informed journalist by profession, convert to the
religion of the barbarians after remaining as their prisoner for several days? She is
now working for a Muslim Television station in London covering herself with
Islamic decency and Hijab. She is a renowned British journalist. She now works

4. for the Iranian-based 24-hour English language news channel Press TV, where she
fronts her own London-based current affairs show, The Agenda.
There is no Taliban rule now. After visiting Afghanistan in November, 2008, she
has written about the present situation, "The only winners emerging from
Afghanistan these days are the drug barons who preside over the world¡¯s largest
heroin trade and the pimps who control the Chinese prostitutes operating from the
scores of bordellos and brothels which have emerged since the US military
occupation.. .So there you have it ¨C Afghanistan a country in the grip of reckless
soldiers, slappers and smack."
During about 6 years of their rule in Afghanistan between 1994 to 2001, Taliban
rightly claim to have established law and order, cleansed the society from all kinds
of crimes, completely eradicated the production and the sale of drugs, as admitted
and appreciated by the UN as well. As regards the emergence of Taliban in 1994,
the same New York Times report of February 14, 1996 says, "Only a year ago, the
rise of the Taliban was greeted with widespread enthusiasm in areas of the country
that they now control. Their sudden emergence as a political and military force,
from a base in the southern city of Kandahar, was propelled by their pledge to
"cleanse" Afghanistan of the killing, rape and pillage that became endemic under
the cover of the civil war that ensued after Soviet troops were withdrawn in
1989.......Out of the anarchy that followed the Soviet retreat from Afghanistan in
1989 emerged numerous competing factions, many of them still fighting with
weapons that had been supplied covertly by the United States. Divided by tribal
origins, personalities or strictness of their interpretations of Islam, the factions have
battled for control ever since. A new and stringently fundamentalist faction, the
Taliban, arose in Sept. 1994, in protest against the abduction and rape of a group of
Afghan women and teenage girls by local warlords who had gained power in the
fight against the Soviets. Invoking the memory of forebears who fought the British,
the Taliban pledged to rid Afghanistan of the warlords, whom they described as
"parasites" masquerading as Muslims. Within four months, they controlled a third
of Afghanistan. Since then, their fortunes have varied. Herat, the key city in
western Afghanistan, fell in Sept. 1995." How one can call such people barbarians
who have emerged to unite their country against the competing factions, to protest
against the abduction and rape of Afghan girls and to rid Afghanistan of the
warlords, who were regarded as "parasites" masquerading as Muslims? How the

5. people emerging for such lofty ideals can suddenly become terrorists and
criminals, as they are presented in this color by the anti-Islam secular media?
The same New York Times report, which is basically anti-Taliban, ridicules the
Taliban punishments in the following words, "The new Afghanistan is a world
where murderers and "enemies" of the Taliban are hanged from cranes and the
barrels of tank cannon, where the execution of others found guilty of killing
consists of being shot in the back with rifles by their victims' fathers, and where
convicted thieves are subjected to surgical amputations of their hands and
arms.......After the anarchy of recent years, many Afghans have welcomed the
harsh punishments meted out by the Taliban to some violent criminals, while
others have been horrified... ..According to reports published in Pakistan, there
were public executions carried out in the eastern Afghanistan city of Khost a few
days ago." The Taliban punishments are described in a ridiculous style, but one
has to see the character and face of Taliban in it. This shows that Afghans have
welcomed these harsh punishments as they have got rid of anarchy and lived in
peace. Justice was meted out promptly. It further illustrates how strict Taliban had
been against all kinds of crimes. As a result they have eradicated crime in
Afghanistan during their 6-year rule. What is ridiculous is the propaganda against
them that such people have now turned to become barbarians and criminals
themselves against whom they had been giving such severe punishments. This
kind of baseless propaganda against them cannot hold ground for long.
No civilized government in 21st century could be successful so far to achieve such
fantastic results in prevention of crime and maintaining law and order in their
respective countries. Neither America, nor Europe, nor Japan, nor any other
country, except Saudi Arabia, can claim their success in prevention of crime,
homicide, rape, drugs, fraud and what not. the late King Faisal once replied to a
questioner in the US that the crimes committed in New York in one day are much
more than all the crimes in Saudi Arabia in more than ten years. Every year the rate
of crime is on a constant increase in every so-called civilized country today.
In maintaining law and order in society, Taliban deserve to be ranked as No.1 in
the world. In view of these big achievements of Taliban government, it is better to
forgive some of their extreme measures about beard etc., which are extraordinarily

6. insignificant in nature and do not deserve to be demonized by our secularized or
liberal intellectuals.
As regards the beheadings by Taliban, there are reports in some Western
newspapers that Taliban have beheaded some of the criminals who were
pretending as Taliban commanders in their ranks. The secularists are falsely
propagating that such beheadings were those of the innocent civilians.
American spies and CIA informers are inviting Drone attacks to their own people.
Since 2006 these attacks have killed only 12 militants. An article about Drone
attacks in Pakistan published in a US web site, Council on Foreign Relations on
March 20, 2009 by Greg Bruno states, center for American Progress counts as
many as 543 people killed by U.S. since 2006; only twelve were top al-Qaeda
operatives. These 543 innocent civilians were killed because of American
informers in the Taliban ranks or in the civilian population. These CIA spies are
the real murderers of innocent civilians. Do such spies and informers, who are the
real murderers, not deserve the punishment of beheadings?
Taliban have not become insane to carry out beheadings of innocent people. They
had solid proofs and reliable evidence against those criminals who deserved
beheadings. To blame Taliban for every act of inhuman crime or violence is the
result of mischievous misinformation which is intentionally carried out by the
secular enemies of Sharia.
Our central and provincial governments have been blaming Indian agencies and
professional criminals for most of the inhuman and criminal activities as they
occurred in Baluchistan, in Lahore against Sri Lankan cricket team, and in
Malakand Division. Why our 6th sense cannot separate criminal activity from the
lofty mission of Sharia implementation goal of Taliban Jihad. Why should all
criminals be regarded as Taliban?

7. Pakistan government has accused India, Afghanistan and Russia for the
disturbances in Baluchistan. A news item in the daily DAWN (April 24, 2009)
states, "At a closed-door Senate session on Thursday, Interior Adviser Rehman
Malik presented a bleak picture of the security situation in the country and showed
what he called evidence of the involvement of India, Afghanistan and Russia in
terrorist activities. It is the first time Pakistan has blamed these countries and cited
evidences which, it is believed, will be shared with the international community,
particularly the United States, which has expressed concern over growing
militancy in the country. Following a harsh statement by Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, US special envoy Richard Holbrooke telephoned President Asif Ali
Zardari on Thursday and conveyed a similar message. During the Senate briefing,
the adviser said that all major incidents of terrorism and suicide attacks were linked
to India and Afghanistan, adding that terrorists were being trained by them in those
countries and in North Waziristan and being sent to the settled areas."
The Governor of the provincial government of NWFP, Owais Ahmed Ghani has
blamed criminal elements, not Taliban, for the "terrorism" in Swat valley. He has
accused the enemies of its agreement with the Swat Taliban, which was concluded
with the help of the mediating role of Maulana Sufi Mohammad. Such groups are
trying to dislodge the peace and the improved law and order situation in Swat after
the agreement. For this purpose, they have adopted such mean and false methods
as showing a fake film of a girl being beaten by lashes to ridicule Sharia and
Islamic punishments. Provincial government has categorically denied about the
flogging incident. It has called this fake film incident and other criminal activities
in Malakand Division as an attempt to create an atmosphere against the Nizam-e
Adl regulation.
In a news item published in DAWN, (April 27, 2009), Governor Owais Ahmed
Ghani has said, ¡°The enforcement of Nizam-i-Adl was demand of the entire
population of the Malakand division and the government has enforced the law in
line with their cherished desire. Sincere efforts are under way for its
implementation and the system will definitely get practical shape,¡± he said. If it
was 'a demand of the entire population of the Malakand division' as the governor
Owais says, then why the fulfillment of such a democratic demand is dubbed as
surrender to Taliban at gunpoint? Its opponents have raised false alarm and
unnecessary hue and cry as if it is an act of caving in to the violence of a few
miscreants.

8. The governor, in the same statement, made it clear that "........certain miscreants
were bent upon attacking the police force, kidnapping of citizens, thefts and
looting and damaging the public and private properties.. ......The governor
mentioned certain incidents of terrorism in Malakand division, particularly the
killing of a former district nazim of Lower Dir, Alamzeb Khan, and District Police
Officer Khurshid Khan along with their colleagues. Besides, he said, police
officers and jawans were also martyred, in an attack on mobile van of the force at
Malakand University. Such kind of criminal and subversive activities, the
governor said, were intolerable and therefore, police and the Frontier Corps
launched a joint action against the elements, who were not deserving any
sympathy. Mr Ghani appealed to the religious scholars, political leaders and
general public to create a congenial atmosphere for implementation of Nizam-i-
Adl and play their positive role to curb the activities of anti-Nazim-i- Adl
elements." Taliban are accused of all criminal activities in Malakand Division but
the provincial government puts the blame on criminal elements and not on the
Taliban.
Rather it is requesting the Taliban to cooperate with the provincial government to
subdue the miscreants. Accordingly, Swat Taliban has successfully negotiated
with the Bunir Taliban to vacate the city and not to display the arms. Bunir
Taliban agreed to it and vacated the city. But unfortunately Pakistan army was
mobilized next day unnecessarily to kill the Taliban in Lower Dir and Bunir. The
same job was successfully carried out earlier by the Swat Taliban. But the
alarming statement of Hillary Clinton, devoid of appreciation of ground realities,
forced the Pakistan army to show its muscle by killing a few hundred citizens of its
own country for the pleasure of the US policy-makers. Such pressures by the US
are counter-productive and costing unnecessary civilian life and disrupting the
peaceful livelihood, as they had to migrate in thousands to safe places.
No doubt the real Taliban are also taking a few extremist measures. But we have
to separate criminal activities from the pious mission of Taliban to establish Sharia
courts for swift justice. Despite all false accusations and several years in jail in
Afghanistan as Taliban, Maulana Sufi Mohammad and Swat Taliban have
achieved success in their struggle and Jihad to establish Sharia in Swat. Sharia was
already enforced in Swat state for over 110 years before its forced accession and

9. assimilation in Pakistan by a secular military dictator Gen. Yahya Khan. Sky
would not have fallen, if the people of Swat demanded to revert to a system of
Sharia courts, with which they had been familiar for the last 110 years.
We should look to the other side of the coin as well and find out the causes as to
why Taliban movement has emerged in Pakistan and why it is becoming more and
more popular and powerful day by day?
It was an Afghanistan phenomenon earlier. In addition to our secular military
dictators, American Drone missile attacks have generated it in Pakistan. America
has brought the Afghan war into Pakistan in the name that it has become a
sanctuary of Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders of Afghanistan.
The secular military dictators, like Yahya Khan and Pervaiz Musharraf, have
forced Pakistan to detract from its ideology against the democratic wishes of its
people. As a result, a violent Taliban movement has sprung up in Pakistan to resist
it, since there was no way out for the democratic forces to assert themselves under
militaristic dictatorial regimes. Such dictators in collusion with the U.S. have sown
the seeds of violence in Pakistan. They have thus motivated Taliban to resist them
through violent methods. In the absence of democracy, they had left only the door
of violence open for the lovers of Pakistan ideology.
Patriotic and sincere Muslims are facing this tragic situation, as no government has
taken any serious step in Pakistan for Islamizing our country during the last 60
years of its existence. Had the government moved in the direction of its 1973
Constitution, which was a reflection of people's democratic wish to frame and
implement laws according to Quran and Sunnah, Taliban movement would not
have taken root in our society.
Whatever small beginning was initiated by the late Gen. Zia-ul Haq in this
direction, another secular military dictator, Gen. Musharraf, reversed it. Hudood
Laws of 1979, based on Sharia and on the consensus of all eminent Ulama and

10. Muslim Jurists of that time, were abrogated after 29 years of their peaceful and
successful implementation. There was no public outcry or agitation in Pakistan
against these Islamic Laws during the 29 years of their enforcement. This anti-
Islamic measure compounded with the massacre of innocent Lal Mosque students
by Musharraf government have fueled and pushed the Taliban movement in our
country to its extreme.
In addition to the frustration all true Muslims in Pakistan feel against the secular
character of all our governments, aerial missile attacks by American Drones have
provided Taliban with unlimited suicide bombers to recruit against these attacks to
take revenge. Instead of forcefully resisting it, Pakistan government is simply
paying lip service and appears to be a US partner and a complicit in favor of these
attacks. Taliban have therefore targeted Police, army and other symbols of
government administration to take the revenge of Lal Mosque massacre and the
Drone attacks killing hundreds of civilians. Western news agencies like AP have
mentioned in their dispatches that the terrorist activities of Taliban have increased
tremendously after the Lal Mosque massacre of innocent students by the Musharraf
regime. A US counter-terrorism report (DAWN May 01, 2009) says, "The
coordination, sophistication, and frequency of suicide bombings that increased
sharply in 2007, continued to grow in Pakistan in 2008. By November 30, there
were already 57 recorded suicide attacks in Pakistan, in comparison to 45 reported
attacks in 2007. These attacks will be constantly increasing as long the US would
try to force its will upon the government and the people of Pakistan against the
interests and the wishes of our countrymen.
Peace would return to Pakistan and all violence will come to a halt, if US missile
attacks through unmanned Drones are stopped immediately and Swat-like peace
agreements are not demonized as surrender to Taliban. Rather such agreements
should be concluded in all those tribal areas where Taliban are active. Afghanistan
Taliban regard themselves as 'freedom fighters' against the colonization of their
country by foreign forces. They were not even aware of 9/11 planning and had
made no contribution in these events. Pakistan Taliban will be silenced with the
stoppage of Drone missile attacks and the implementation of Sharia in their desired
areas.