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Taliban Leader Orders Full Implementation of Islamic Law in Afghanistan

Nov 14, 2022, 11:00 GMT+0

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson, announced that the group's leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, has ordered judges to fully implement aspects of Islamic law. Taliban leader’s order includes implementing death sentences for those cases which fulfill the conditions.

Mujahid quoted Akhundzada as saying, "Those files in which all the sharia (Islamic law) conditions of hudud and qisas have been fulfilled, you are obliged to implement. This is the ruling of sharia, and my command, which is obligatory.”

Hudud refers to offences which, under Islamic law, certain types of punishment are mandated, while qisas translates as “retaliation in kind” -- effectively an eye for an eye. Hudud crimes include adultery -- and falsely accusing someone of it -- drinking alcohol, theft, kidnapping and highway robbery, apostasy, and rebellion.

Qisas covers murder and deliberate injury, among other things, but also allows for the families of victims to accept compensation in lieu of punishment.

The Taliban spokesperson said that Akhundzada in a meeting with the judges of the group delivered the message. However, the Taliban have not released any document that proves the leader of the group is alive.

These statements attributed to Akhundzada come two days after the Taliban flogged 20 people on various charges in Taloqan city of Takhar province after the Friday prayers.

The Taliban accused four of these men and women of having affair and beat each of them with 30 lashes.

Seven other girls were also flogged for not observing the hijab required by the Taliban and roaming in the city’s bazaar and nine other young men were flogged for accompanying these girls in the bazaar.

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Taliban Hands Over Dead Body of Baker After 45 Days of Torture, Detention

Nov 14, 2022, 10:30 GMT+0

Sources from Kabul confirmed that the Taliban handed over the body of a baker to his family after 45 days in detention. In a video clip received by Afghanistan International, signs of torture are visible all over the body of the baker.

According to the sources, the baker had been tortured continuously during detention.

According to sources, the man, who owned a bakery in district 7 of Kabul, had been detained by the Taliban members during their visit to Logar province.

The body of the baker has been handed over to his family on Thursday at the Department of Public Health in Logar province.

EU Will Continue to Assist Afghans Through International Organisations, Says Niklasson

Nov 14, 2022, 09:02 GMT+0

Tomas Niklasson, the European Union (EU) Special Representative for Afghanistan, said that the EU will continue to assist Afghans through international organisations. In 2022, through the World Food Program (WFP) only, EU assistance reached 427,000 people in 27 provinces.

According to a WFP report, the organisation donates one-month food packages or cash aid to the citizens who participate in their training courses.

Participants of the WFP training courses learn skills such as growing fruits and vegetables and marketing agricultural products.


Taliban Destroys Tomb of Former Jamiat-e-Islami Commander in Kandahar

Nov 12, 2022, 13:30 GMT+0

The Taliban has destroyed the tomb of Naqibullah Akhund, one of the former commanders of Jamiat-e-Islami, in Kandahar. Mullah Naqibullah Akhund, a Pashtun, was one of the leading commanders of Jamiat-e-Islami, a Tajik-led anti-Soviet Jihadi party in Afghanistan.

Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the National Resistance Front (NRF), condemned the action and said that it shows the "disgusting face" of the group.

In the picture published by Ahmad Massoud, it can be seen that the Taliban members had dug his tomb too.

Former governor of Balkh, Atta Mohammad Noor, reacted to the destruction of Naqibullah Akhund’s tomb and said that these Taliban actions increase Afghan people’s “hatred" towards the group.

A few days ago, Taliban members had also destroyed the tombstone of Afghanistan’s national hero, Ahmad Shah Massoud.

The Taliban have continuously denied involvement in the destruction of the graves of their opponents. However, in the past year, many reports that confirm the group’s involvement in destroying opponents’ graves have emerged across Afghanistan.

On the other hand, the Taliban have revealed the group’s leaders’ graves on various occasions and have reconstructed them.

In the latest case, the Taliban constructed a road leading to the grave of Mullah Omar, the founding leader of the group in Zabul province.

UN's Afghanistan Resolution Full of Paradox, Says NRF

Nov 12, 2022, 09:19 GMT+0

The National Resistance Front (NRF) on Saturday said that the United Nations General Assembly resolution on Afghanistan "has many paradoxes". The NRF added that the UN has asked the Taliban to fight terrorist groups, while the group "is itself a major part of global terrorism".

In the statement, the NRF stated that the international community expects the Taliban to "fulfill its obligations in countering the cultivation, and processing of narcotics", while according to the front, drug trafficking had been a major source of Taliban’s income in the twenty years of war in Afghanistan.

The NRF also said that while the Taliban has been infamous for targeting public properties, the UN has urged the group to "live up to its guarantees to ensure the security of the Afghan people".

The front has also published a list of what it calls "paradoxes of the UN General Assembly Resolution on Afghanistan".

The NRF warned that Afghanistan is quickly becoming a potential threat to the region and the world and stated that with the tyranny and oppression of the Taliban against the people of Afghanistan, and the current approach of the international community towards the group, soon many regional and global terror threats will emerge for the region and the world from Afghanistan.

EU Ambassadors Meet Afghan Women Rights Activists in Brussels

Nov 11, 2022, 15:21 GMT+0

European Union (EU) ambassadors met with several Afghan women rights activists in Brussels. Tomas Niklasson, EU Special Representative for Afghanistan, said that they discussed their concerns and ideas for EU support to Afghanistan.

Niklasson also said that they are inspired by how Afghan women work for a peaceful and inclusive Afghanistan where women can contribute.

The EU Special Representative has also published a group photo of women and officials of European Union countries in this meeting on his official Twitter account.

The discussion about the situation of Afghan women took place while the Taliban imposed extensive restrictions on Afghan women.

Mandatory hijab, encouraging women to stay at home, non-participation of women in political activities, and closing girls' schools above the sixth grade are some of the restrictions being imposed by the Taliban.

Niklasson had previously said that the Taliban’s double standard and dishonest policies towards Afghan women has been frustrating.

In the latest move, the Taliban have also banned women from entering amusement parks. The Taliban said that women have been prohibited from entering parks and sports halls because of non-compliance with gender segregation laws.