India, Oct. 3 -- After two days of fierce fighting, the Afghan capital on September 27, 1996 fell to hardline Taliban militia who publicly executed former Communist president Najibullah and set up a six-member interim Islamic government even as President Burhanuddin Rabbani and Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar fled the seat of power. Najibullah, 50, who had taken shelter at the United Nations (UN) office in the city since April 1992 when the rebels ousted his Soviet-backed government after a 14-year war, was dragged to a street and hanged from a lamp post in the heart of the city. His bodyguard was also hanged, reports said. The Taliban, backed by tanks and armoured vehicles, entered the city at 3am IST without any resistance from governm...