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Thinks for the addition.let me interject with something.
The Taliban were not those fighters who fought against the soviets. Most of the Taliban were refugees in Pakistan, and their top leadership (Apart from Mullah Umar perhaps) were actually students at madrassa Haqqania while the Afghan Jihad was being waged.
The Mujahideen who fought against the soviets were not the Taliban, although many people in the Northern Alliance like Ahmad Shah Masood and Rabbani did wage jihad against the Soviets.
Mullah Omar is reputed to have been a footsoldier during the jihad too, but of no real consequence and none of his 'exploits' are documented.
The Taliban group was formed in the mid 90s, after the Soviets left Afghanistan, as a reaction to the lawlessness and infighting that had gripped former Mujahideen commanders and criminals.
i would also like to correct myself. What i wanted to say was that when after the fall of Soviet forces the Talibans controlled Afghanistan they made the indian embassy there to pack up and to buzz off. The embassy was reopened during Karzai's regime and a great ceremony to this effect was also held thereof, thus earmarking the start of indian intervention in afghani affairs and the formation of new foreign policy against Pakistan.