11.   Meanwhile the diplomats also were trying to meet Taliban officials to get more information about a decision by the Islamic rulers to put the foreign aid workers on trial.

12.   So Islamic rulers have at times in the past tried to distinguish minorities from the Muslim population.

13.   Taliban fighters brandishing Kalashnikovs hauled men off the streets Friday and forced them into mosques to pray on the first Muslim sabbath since new Islamic rulers captured Kabul.

14.   Taliban fighters brandishing Kalashnikov rifles hauled men off the streets Friday and forced them into mosques to pray on the first Muslim sabbath since new Islamic rulers captured Kabul.

15.   The Mughals were the Islamic rulers over much of what is now modern-day India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

16.   The Taliban Islamic rulers arrested six men they said were opposition soldiers trying to defame the Taliban by destroying leather jackets last week, Radio Shariat said Saturday.