Taliban.

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The Taliban (Pashto: طالبان ṭālibān, also anglicised as Taleban; translation: "students") is a Sunni Islamist, pred

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$A Pakistani driver steers his trailer carrying NATO forces\' trucks bound for Karachi, following their arrival from Afghanistan, in Quetta on May 21, 2013. The US military has started to withdraw equipment from Afghanistan through Pakistan ahead of next year\'s deadline for combat troops to leave the war against the Taliban. Pakistan is a key transit route for the NATO mission in landlocked Afghanistan, from where it is driven to the border from the Arabian Sea port of Karachi.$

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$Human Rights Watch (HRW)\'s Deputy Director of Asia, Phelim Kine, shows a copy of the HRW magazine during a news conference in Kabul May 21, 2013. About 600 Afghan women and girls are behind bars for so-called moral crimes, HRW said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost twelve years ago.$

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$Pakistan\'s incoming Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addresses his party\'s newly elected MPs in Lahore on May 20, 2013. Sharif on May 20 supported talks with homegrown Taliban and said that its the best option to establish peace and boost his country\'s economy.$

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Afghan policemen evacuate a wounded person after a suicide bomber struck outside a provincial council headquarters in Pul-i-Khumri, Baghlan province, northern Afghanistan, Monday, May 20, 2013, killing the council chief and at least more than a dozen others, authorities said. Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the bombing saying the killing of civilians shows the true nature of the Taliban, who seek to re-establish the strict interpretation of Islamic law they imposed for five years before being ousted in the 2001 U.S.-led invasion over its sheltering of al-Qaida s terrorist leadership.

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$An elderly Pakistani man, who fled his home with his family from Pakistan\'s tribal areas, due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, sleeps on a bed covered with a mosquito net, on a roadside, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, early Monday, May 20, 2013. As temperatures rise, many Pakistanis are sleeping outdoors to escape the heat trapped in their homes.$

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An Afghan university student demonstrates against the Elimination of Violence against Women law, in Kabul on May 22, 2013. The Afghan parliament on May 18 cut short a debate on a bill to protect women from violence after complaints from some traditionalist MPs that it was against Islamic teaching. The Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law, which was passed by a presidential decree in 2009, is seen as a benchmark piece of legislation marking progress since the fall of the Taliban regime nearly 12 years ago.

A Pakistani driver steers his trailer carrying NATO forces' trucks bound for Karachi, following their arrival from Afghanistan, in Quetta on May 21, 2013. The US military has started to withdraw equipment from Afghanistan through Pakistan ahead of next year's deadline for combat troops to leave the war against the Taliban. Pakistan is a key transit route for the NATO mission in landlocked Afghanistan, from where it is driven to the border from the Arabian Sea port of Karachi.

Human Rights Watch (HRW)'s Deputy Director of Asia, Phelim Kine, shows a copy of the HRW magazine during a news conference in Kabul May 21, 2013. About 600 Afghan women and girls are behind bars for so-called moral crimes, HRW said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost twelve years ago.

Pakistan's incoming Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addresses his party's newly elected MPs in Lahore on May 20, 2013. Sharif on May 20 supported talks with homegrown Taliban and said that its the best option to establish peace and boost his country's economy.

Afghan policemen evacuate a wounded person after a suicide bomber struck outside a provincial council headquarters in Pul-i-Khumri, Baghlan province, northern Afghanistan, Monday, May 20, 2013, killing the council chief and at least more than a dozen others, authorities said. Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the bombing saying the killing of civilians shows the true nature of the Taliban, who seek to re-establish the strict interpretation of Islamic law they imposed for five years before being ousted in the 2001 U.S.-led invasion over its sheltering of al-Qaida s terrorist leadership.

An elderly Pakistani man, who fled his home with his family from Pakistan's tribal areas, due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, sleeps on a bed covered with a mosquito net, on a roadside, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, early Monday, May 20, 2013. As temperatures rise, many Pakistanis are sleeping outdoors to escape the heat trapped in their homes.

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