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Huge difference between mujhiddens and taliban, Mujhideens like dostum and massoud fought against the ISI backed taliban whereas few mujhshideens like hekmetyaar joined the taliban.... There is a big misconception that mujhaideens became taliban, which is not completely true. Talib (student) were the kids recruited mostly from the afghan refugee camps and tribal areas of pak, trained in the madrasas backed by saudi money and sent in by ISI under the so called leaddership of mullah omar, but during the 94 attacks on kabul, ISI/PA mil commanders were embeded in the squads that attacked massouds forces, which by the way he sucessfully repelled. Later massoud and rabbani had to tactically evacuate to panjshir, from where they did launch a counter attack, decimating the taliban, but couldn't hold on to kabul.
When taliban government was formed, ISI backed elements sucessfully pulled off the IC 814 hijacking.- Another sucess
only Indians can be that much ignorant Not to know that Ahmed Shah Masood, Dostam, Rabbani, Sayaf, Hikmatyar all were Pakistan's boys and were trained and backed by Pakistan in the first Afghan war. all of them were Mujahideen.
Later in the 90s there had been too much internal power tug of war between these Afghan factions backed by different countries namely Iran-Pakistan-India.
India was backing Masood faction for obvious reasons since he was against Pashtun factions' power. The other warlords were backed by fariswans whereas later another faction emerged calling themself Taliban. Their emergance was more related to social injustices by warlords there but unfortunately the movement after gaining public support become another "warlord" in itself.
Pakistan backed it for same obvious reasons for which India backed anti-Pukhtun factions