Re: Pakistan situation and Takfeeri Ideology
Lets not confuse Taliban with ‘mujahideen’. Mujahideen was a group of fighters who were basically fighting the Soviets…(incidentally, mujahideen were created/armed by ZAB as well…not Zia, as the common perception goes.)
Taliban came into being in 1994 after USSR’s demise, and yes, Benazir supported it, tacitly or not. Her aim may have been to gain favor from domestic idiots like JUIF, but she used it for political motives.
And her banishment from Kahuta was perhaps for good measure, because according to AQ Khan, she was the one who ordered him to transfer nuke secrets to Korea and Iran