Answer: The Taliban are a movement of religious "students" from the Pashtun areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan who were educated in traditional Islamic schools.
Explanation: An ultraconservative political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s following the withdrawal of Soviet troops, the collapse of Afghanistan's communist regime, and the subsequent breakdown in civil order.
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The Taliban are a group of fundamentalist Sunni Muslim militants living today mostly near the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The word Taliban means "students" in Pashto, a name used because many of the
original members studied in Pakistani religious schools called madrassas. Other members come from the ranks of the mujahedeen, the battle-hardened Islamic fighters who beat back the Soviet military incursion into Afghanistan in the 1980s. The vast majority of Taliban are ethnic Pashtun.
