{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"The Taliban Primer","author_name":"himalistan","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article3214.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article3214.html'\u003EThe Taliban Primer\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWho is Baitullah Mahsud? \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\n Unravelling the Taliban phenomenon has never been easy, but it has undoubtedly become more complex with the rise of the Pakistani Taliban in 2003, making it necessary to differentiate this group from the Afghan Taliban. The former constituted the \u2018original\u2019 Taliban, militants who captured power in Afghanistan against heavy odds in 1996 by fighting and defeating the mujahideen who had earlier waged jihad, or holy war, to oust the Soviets. But members of the Afghan (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}