In Taliban-controlled Kabul in the 1990s, barber shops were banned. Instead, they inch through chaotic, clogged traffic in the city of more than 5 million. This time, the gun-toting fighters don't race through the city streets in their pickups. Some things have changed since the first period of Taliban rule in the 1990s. America has departed, ending its `forever war' two weeks before the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and two weeks after the Taliban returned to the Afghan capital on Aug. Twenty years later, the Taliban are back in Kabul. 7, 2001, they were defeated, driven from their last holdout in southern Kandahar, their spiritual heartland. It took the U.S.-led coalition just two months to drive the Taliban from the capital and by Dec.
The city rarely had electricity and barely a million people lived in Kabul at the time. 11, 2001, the day of the horrific attacks on America, the news spread from crackling radios across the darkened streets of the Afghan capital of Kabul. Two decades ago, the Taliban ruled Afghanistan with a heavy hand. In a tweet, Afghanistan's first president to follow the 2001 collapse of the Taliban, Hamid Karzai, called for "peace and stability'' and expressed the hope that the new caretaker Cabinet that included no women and no non-Taliban would become "inclusive government can be the real face of whole Afghanistan.'' He marked the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America with a meeting of tribal elders on his high-walled compound in the Afghan capital where he has remained with his family since the August return of the Taliban to Kabul. The composition of the all-male, all-Taliban government was announced earlier this week and was met with disappointment by the international community which had hoped the Taliban would make good on an earlier promise of an inclusive lineup. The flag-raising marked the official start of the work of the new government, he said. The white banner, emblazoned with a Quranic verse, was hoisted by Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the prime minister of the Taliban interim government, in a low-key ceremony, said Ahmadullah Muttaqi, multimedia branch chief of the Taliban's cultural commission. KABUL: The Taliban raised their flag over the Afghan presidential palace Saturday, a spokesman said, as the US and the world marked the 20th anniversary of the Sept.
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