Afghanistan's Taliban appeal for donations Complete with telephone hotlines and email addresses, the appeal was posted on a Taliban website asking Muslims worldwide to help the rebels in what they say is a "Jihad," or a holy war, against non-Muslim "invaders." The appeal appeared to be part of the rebels' "media war," a move to show their campaign is supported by the masses, said analyst Abdul Waheed Wafa. "I think it's part of the Taliban propaganda war," Wafa, director of the Afghanistan Centre, a research body at Kabul University, told AFP. "They are trying to show that their Jihad is supported by the people and their funds are coming from the people," Wafa added. According to Western and Afghan intelligence most Taliban funds are generated from Afghanistan's multi-billion dollar opium production, the raw material for making heroin. Afghanistan produces more than 90 per cent of the world's opium. The nation's Western-backed government also accuses neighbouring Pakistan's intelligence agencies and radical groups of funding the Taliban insurgency, mostly a campaign of suicide attacks and other bombings. Pakistan denies the allegations.