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Escape from Taliban is a 2003 Indian film directed by Ujjwal Chatterjee. The film is based on the story A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife by Sushmita Banerjee , who fled Afghanistan in 1995 after six years of living there with her Afghan husband.
The 1995 Airstan Ilyushin Il-76 hijacking took place on 3 August 1995, Taliban-controlled fighter aircraft intercepted an Airstan Ilyushin Il-76TD transport aircraft, with seven Russian nationals on board, forcing it to land at Taliban-occupied Kandahar International Airport. The men were held prisoner for over a year before making their escape ...
The Palestinian Taliban Group was established in 2009 with around 100 members by the emir of the organization, Abu Osama, to combat Hamas because the organization believed that Hamas deviated from the correct Islamic approach and saw the Afghan Taliban as a model militant organization.
The word Taliban is Pashto, طَالِباَنْ (ṭālibān), meaning "students", the plural of ṭālib. This is a loanword from Arabic طَالِبْ (ṭālib), using the Pashto plural ending -ān اَنْ. [97]
The movie follows their captivity, day-to-day survival, and escape from Taliban. Unexpected negligence from Russian diplomats caused the prisoners to take steps toward their freedom themselves. The captain was forced to teach Taliban fighters to fly the plane, and the rest of the hostages were allowed to visit their aircraft for maintenance.
The Kunduz airlift, also called the Airlift of Evil, refers to the evacuation by Pakistan of hundreds of top commanders and members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda as well as their Pakistani advisors (which included agents of the Inter-Services Intelligence and personnel of the Pakistani military) from the city of Kunduz, Afghanistan, in November 2001.
On 18 October Kahtani released a videotape in Pakistan, detailing the escape and pledging further attacks against Saudi Arabia and United States. Al-Faruq was killed by British soldiers in Iraq in September 2006. [5] Al-Kahtani was recaptured in Afghanistan in November 2006. [6] Hashimi was killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan in July 2008. [7]
On the day of the escape, militants ferried away the prisoners, mostly former Taliban members, over a period of 4 and a half hours. Before the Afghan government became aware of the attacks, Taliban spokesperson Zaibullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the operation. Mujahid claimed that the operation was conducted between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m ...