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Dan Snow's History Hit

History of the Taliban

Dan Snow's History Hit

History Hit

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4.712.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In August 2021 the Taliban swept to power in Afghanistan for the second time capturing Kabul and ousting the American backed regime, but where do they come from and what does their return to power mean for the region? To find out more about the history of the Taliban and the impact of them re-conquering Afghanistan Dan is joined by Pakistani journalist and author Ahmed Rashid. Ahmed was the first journalist to meet the Taliban in 1994 and has spent much of his career writing about them and their rise to power. He brings his unique perspective about this much-feared group and to the podcast and explores with Dan their history, path to victory, governing style and the implications of their takeover both for the people of Afghanistan and for neighbouring countries.

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0:00.0

Hi buddy, welcome to Dance and those history.

0:02.9

On this podcast and elsewhere in the media, you'll have heard a lot of basically middle-aged

0:07.3

white guys like me, pontificating about Vatalaban, about Afghanistan.

0:11.1

And we thought on this podcast, we actually asked someone who knows about at close quarters,

0:15.2

someone who's hung out with them, been reporting on them for 30 years, spent time with them

0:20.6

in Kandahar when they first really emerged onto the regional stage.

0:24.3

And that person is Emmett Rashid, he is a very distinguished journalist and author after

0:30.8

the 9-11 attacks in New York and Washington.

0:34.6

One and a half million copies of his book about Vatalaban were sold in the weeks that followed

0:39.4

and he's been called on by many politicians like Tony Blair for advice and instruction

0:45.8

about Vatalaban and Afghanistan.

0:46.8

I was very lucky to catch up with him, he gave history here at some time, talked to him

0:51.1

from his home in Pakistan.

0:52.4

And I think this is a useful, corrective, or addition to what we've been hearing in

0:57.2

the last few weeks and months about Vatalaban.

1:00.6

You can hear lots of other podcasts on Afghanistan, we go back and delve into the history, recent

1:06.3

and ancient of Afghanistan and by ancient, I really mean ancient, we all the way back to

1:09.9

Alexander Great and beyond.

1:11.7

If you go to History Hit TV, which is our digital history channel, we've got audio on there

1:16.8

without the ads, we've got hundreds of hours of TV shows and all of it is available

1:22.0

for a very small subscription, less than the pint of beer I bought in the pub last night

1:28.2

when I was out with team History Hit having a couple of beers.

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