There is NO GOOD OR BAD TALIBAN.

They are Only ONE Taliban--- a highly radicalised religious nutjobs ready to enforce oppression and violence for their silly ideology.

This has been consistent POSITION of India much before US got attacked on 9-11 and all that "You are with us or against us" kind of verses started getting recited by Rev. Dubya Bush and his cronies.

fact is -- US whenever finds it harmful to themselves can make declare an organization terrorists and when some factions of that same very radicals are not harmful to Americans or American interests they will be ready to project them through well oiled media machinery as "good".

With such kind of Opportunist policies, the two countries which will suffer most are moderate Afghanistan-- northern alliance folks and of course India.

The Only party gaining here is notorious ISI+Pak Military which has a record of supporting and sustaining Taliban like terror organizations and extracting money from world.