IS have also managed to harness the power of social media in a way that no preceding terrorist group has. While the Taliban and al-Qaeda predominately practise guerrilla warfare, making them extremely difficult to face using traditional combat techniques, IS tactics are far more similar to those of a typical army. Watch: Islamic State 'driving' UK terror threat. Surprisingly, Afghanistan and Pakistani Taliban are rivals as well as allies they have slightly conflicting ideologies which have led to clashes in the past. It was this group that attempted to murder Malala Yousafzai for going to school under the group's rule. The biggest and most effective group in Pakistan are the TTP. Women over the age of 10 are prohibited from receiving an education, and televisions and social media are banned.Ĭontrary to popular belief, there is not one single 'Taliban' but several different groups. However, the group enforces extremely strict laws by which its citizens must live. They originally promised to restore peace and security via Sharia law in the Pashtun areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Taliban means 'student' in Arabic, and it is widely speculated that the group first emerged from religious seminaries which preached a strict variation of Sunni Islam. The group came to prominence in Afghanistan in the autumn of 1994, and governed in the country for five years, from 1996 to 2001. The Taliban differ from al-Qaeda as many of their principles stem from the traditional Pashtun tribal way of life in Afghanistan, although both practise branches of Sunni Islam. Watch: Afghanistan – world watches as Taliban enters Kabul.
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