All 50 Uses
Taliban
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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- "The Taliban are here," she said.
p. 273.4Taliban = fundamentalist Islamic political and military organization
- Mariam had first heard of the Taliban two years before, in October 1994, when Rasheed had brought home news that they had overthrown the warlords in Kandahar and taken the city.
p. 273.5
- At least the Taliban are pure and incorruptible.
p. 274.6
- For two years now, the Taliban had been making their way toward Kabul, taking cities from the Mujahideen, ending factional war wherever they'd settled.
p. 274.8
- The Taliban had one thing the Mujahideen did not, Rasheed said. They were united.
p. 275.1
- On it, someone had painted three words in big, black letters: zenda baad Taliban!
p. 275.8
- Long live the Taliban!
p. 275.8
- Mariam saw her first of the Taliban later that day, at Pashtunistan Square, with Rasheed, Laila, and Aziza.
p. 275.9
- She would later hear that the Taliban had dragged Najibullah from his sanctuary at the UN headquarters near Darulaman Palace.
p. 276.6
- You think this is some new, radical idea the Taliban are bringing?
p. 279.3
- "What the Taliban did to Najibullah looked serious to me," Rasheed said.
p. 279.7
- Mariam heard the answer in his laugh: that in the eyes of the Taliban, being a communist and the leader of the dreaded KHAD made Najibullah only slightly more contemptible than a woman.
p. 279.9
- Laila was glad, when the Taliban went to work, that Babi wasn't around to witness it.
p. 280.1
- The Taliban went to the grave of Tariq's favorite singer, Ahmad Zahir, and fired bullets into it.
p. 281.5
- Rasheed wasn't bothered much by the Taliban.
p. 281.7
- Rasheed regarded the Taliban with a forgiving, affectionate kind of bemusement, as one might regard an erratic cousin prone to unpredictable acts of hilarity and scandal.
p. 281.7
- Every Wednesday night, Rasheed listened to the Voice of Shari'a when the Taliban would announce the names of those scheduled for punishment.
p. 281.9 *
- Or I could go to the Taliban one day, just walk in and say that I have my suspicions about you.
p. 282.7
- No one had believed it, and the Taliban hadn't enforced the policy.
p. 286.1
- When NGOs offer money, the Taliban turn them away.
p. 290.5
- The Taliban had banned television.
p. 298.4
- Mostly, the Taliban confiscated stuff, gave a kick to someone's rear, whacked the back of a head or two.
p. 300.9
- When it was safer, they'd agreed, when the Taliban cut down on their raids, in a month or two or six, or maybe longer, they would dig the TV up.
p. 301.3
- The Taliban are puppets.
p. 307.9
- Rasheed said he'd heard rumors that the Taliban were allowing these people to set up secret camps all over the country, where young men were being trained to become suicide bombers and jihadi fighters.
p. 308.1
- Massoud was now in his native North, and leading the Northern Alliance, the sole opposition group still fighting the Taliban.
p. 312.8
- In Europe, Massoud had warned the West about terrorist camps in Afghanistan, and pleaded with the U.S. to help him fight the Taliban.
p. 312.9
- A month before that, Laila had learned that the Taliban had planted TNT in the crevices of the giant Buddhas in Bamiyan and blown them apart, calling them objects of idolatry and sin.
p. 313.1
- Governments, historians, and archaeologists from all over the globe had written letters, pleaded with the Taliban not to demolish the two greatest historical artifacts in Afghanistan.
p. 313.3
- But the Taliban had gone ahead and detonated their explosives inside the two-thousand-year-old Buddhas.
p. 313.3
- We get mothers like you all the time-all the time--mothers who come here who can't feed their children because the Taliban won't let them go out and make a living.
p. 318.4
- We get little or no support from the Taliban.
p. 318.7
- But you won't get past the Taliban.
p. 320.7
- Crossing the street, she was spotted by the Taliban and riddled with questions-What is your name?
p. 320.9
- But for Laila, the reward, if she made it past the Taliban, was worth it.
p. 321.6
- "But we have to pull the curtains," Aziza said, "so the Taliban don't see us."
p. 321.9
- Kaka Zaman had knitting needles and balls of yarn ready, she said, in case of a Taliban inspection.
p. 321.9
- More than once, Laila had wondered what the Taliban would do about Kaka Zaman's clandestine lessons if they found out.
p. 324.2
- When the Taliban had found the paintings, Tariq said, they'd taken offense at the birds' long, bare legs.
p. 331.1
- When the Taliban are gone, he'll just wash them off
p. 331.5
- Her parents' deaths, her marriage to Rasheed, the killings, the rockets, the Taliban, the beatings, the hunger, even her children, all of it seemed like a dream, a bizarre detour, a mere interlude between that last afternoon together and this moment.
p. 342.3
- The Taliban?
p. 358.1
- As the three Taliban watched, Mariam wrote it out, her name-the meem, the reh, the yah, and the meem —remembering the last time she'd signed her name to a document, twenty-seven years before, at Jalil's table, beneath the watchful gaze of another mullah.
p. 366.9
- In less than two hours, both towers have collapsed Soon all the TV stations are talking about Afghanistan and the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.
p. 384.3
- Did you hear what the Taliban said?
p. 384.4
- The Taliban have announced that they won't relinquish bin Laden because he is a mehman, a guest, who has found sanctuary in Afghanistan and it is against the Pashtunwali code of ethics to turn over a guest.
p. 384.6
- The Americans have armed the warlords once more, and enlisted the help of the Northern Alliance to drive out the Taliban and find bin Laden.
p. 385.9
- The coalition forces have driven the Taliban out of every major city, pushed them across the border to Pakistan and to the mountains in the south and east of Afghanistan.†
p. 389.1
- Laila has to explain to Aziza that when they return to Kabul the Taliban won't be there, that there will not be any fighting, and that she will not be sent back to the orphanage.†
p. 391.4
- He has dark, shoulder-length hair-a common thumbing of the nose at the departed Taliban, Laila has discovered-and some kind of scar interrupting his mustache on the left side.†
p. 394.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(Taliban) a fundamentalist Islamic political faction that rules Afghanistan
(A fundamentalist is someone who strongly believes in old, traditional forms of a religion.) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)