In the last half of the 1990s

In the last half of the 1990s, the Central Asian states, except Turkmenistan, viewed the Taliban as the greatest threat to their security. The ultra-Orthodox Taliban’s ability to gather support and sweep through Afghanistan was especially alarming to the Central Asian leaders When the Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991, among the first acts of the governments in the newly independent Central Asian states was to lift restrictions on religious practice and remind the world that Islam was the religion of the region สล็อตเว็บตรง