yousri: That was the joke of the month. Mind naming those 18states ??

Whoever said that Taliban, whose fundamentalist principles advocate a militant Islam and in no way recognizes the sanctity of other faiths, is in cahoots with a country which is 80% Hindu (infidels who are not even among the people of the book) is either smoking something really strong or has his head fixed backwards. In the famous words of one of their own acclaimed leaders, they belive in 'hitting india again and again till they bring it down on its knees'.

The cursed geographical location around those barren hills, has always been a no-man's land from milleniums back. Periods of peace have always been the calm before the storm.and it will continue to be a lawless land coz they themselves are a breed that cant be disciplined or made to stick to any kind of norms that make a progressive society. They are doomed to be the eternal wild west of the modern world.