Source Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor For most of 2001, the Taliban, a Pashtun-dominated ultra-conservative Islamic movement, controlled approximately 90 percent of the country, including the capital of Kabul, and all major urban areas, except Faizabad. In 1997 the Taliban issued an edict renaming the country the Islamic Emirate of… Continue reading International Religious Freedom Report 2002 – Afghanistan