How did Taliban come into existence?

Massoud was a tajik. Taliban a majority Pashtun group and add to it Hazaras (shias) too. The ethnic cleansing of various groups took place under Taliban rule. Hazaras had it pretty hard. When the winter came Taliban stopped the food from reaching Hazaras in Hind kush mountains. read more

While the Taliban Militia came into existence in 1994, the Taliban are a group of Islamic fundamentalists who live in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Central Asia. Their origins have been traced back to the eighth century A.D. read more

Following the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. declared a war against Afghanistan. at this point the U.S. realized the seeds they had sown. Taliban was a creation of the Pakistani intelligence agency (the ISI) but was funded by the U.S. read more