 Many people fled to his territory to escape the violence and fundamentalism imposed by the Taliban later on.In 1994, Dostum allied himself with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar against the government of Burhanuddin Rabbani and Ahmad Shah Massoud, but in 1995 sided with the government again.The Taliban ('the students') have been described as a movement of religious students ("talib") from the Pashtun areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan who had been educated in traditional Islamic schools in Pakistan.