Taliban

alternative Taleban

1. A Deobandi Islamist and largely Pashtun religious political movement founded in Afghanistan in 1994 by mullah Mohammad Omar, which has governed the country from 1996 to 2001 and since 2021.

   The president refused to offer any sort of mea culpa on Tuesday, even as the Taliban celebrated their “independence” from America with gunfire in the streets of Kabul.

   2021 September 1, Michael D. Shear, Jim Tankersley, “Biden Defends Afghan Pullout and Declares an End to Nation-Building”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2022

plural Talibans · alternative Taleban

1. A Taliban militia.

   We will deal with the Afghan Taliban through dialogue. And we will handle the Pakistani Taliban with bullets.

   2005 April 28, Scott Baldauf, quoting Merajuddin Pathan, “Taliban coming in from cold”, in The Christian Science Monitor^(https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202450/https://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0428/p01s03-wosc.html/(page)/2), archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016

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   The Pakistani Taliban, an offspring of the Afghan Taliban, are led by veterans of the fighting in Afghanistan who come from the border regions.

   2009 March 27, Carlotta Gall, “Pakistan and Afghan Taliban Close Ranks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2022, page A1

   Indeed, one of the key distinguishing factors between the two Talibans is that the Afghans insist they have a strictly local agenda of "liberating" their homeland, many analysts say. […] Not everyone accepts the premise of a complete rupture between the two Talibans.

   2009 November 18, Raza Khan, “Afghan, Pakistani Taliban diverge on goals”, in The Washington Times, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2010

2. A member of the Taliban movement or its militia; a Talib.
3. A censorious or bigoted moralist.

   If the Tory Taliban can't get that, they'll condemn us all to oblivion.

   2005 July 18, Alan Duncan, “The Tory Taliban must be rooted out”, in The Guardian