thousands tried to escape Afghanistan since from Taliban Forcibly snatched the reins of the country, as the world was watching in shock. City after city fell to terrorist group as the United States prepared to drive its troops out of the country. Several countries called for sanctions and said they would not recognize the Taliban as the authority in the case of a forcible snatch of power, with the Taliban promising that it would be different this time.
While the Taliban declared Afghanistan as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, it also said that women would not face the atrocities they perpetrated during their reign in the late 90s.
Enamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban’s Cultural Commission, said on 17 August, “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan does not want women to be victims anymore… The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is ready to provide women with an environment to work and study, and the presence of women in various (government) structures in accordance with Islamic law and in accordance with our cultural values.”
The Taliban promised pardons would be given to those who worked with Western troops or held ranks in the previous Kabul administration. It said it would protect the life, property and honor of every citizen and maintain a peaceful and secure environment.
Three weeks later, the world is still watching the situation unfold in the country, even as the last anti-Taliban stronghold of Panjshir has fallen. According to reports, there have been several cases of cruelty against women and the Taliban are already breaking their promise of apology.
Here’s a look at how the Taliban fared in their promises.
women’s education with restrictions
The Taliban’s new higher education minister said Afghan women would be allowed to attend university as long as they study separately from men. Minister Abdul Baqi Haqqani was not sorry about abolishing mixed sex classes. The Taliban announced earlier this month that women could still study at university if they wore an abaya robe and niqab, which covers most of the face, with classes segregated by sex – or at least divided by a curtain.
Women’s rights were sharply curtailed in Afghanistan under the Taliban’s 1996–2001 regime, which was plagued by oppression of women in the background of a radically patriarchal system. The Taliban undermined women’s rights to movements, education and health, and went to the extent of public executions in cases of deviation from prescribed rules.
Journalists detained, shots fired for protest
At least three rallies were held in Kabul on Tuesday against the Taliban and hundreds of women took part in these rallies. While such protests were unimaginable during the previous regime, this rally also did not end well.
Shots were fired in the air to disperse the crowd, shouting slogans, holding banners and protesting their frustrations with security, free passage from the country and alleged interference by Pakistan. People are said to have been beaten up and journalists arrested during protests – things that citizens are able to do freely in any democratic country.
An Afghan journalist covering the demonstration told AFP that the Taliban had confiscated his press ID and camera. “I was kicked and told to leave,” he said.
General Mobin, the Taliban official in charge of security in the capital, told AFP he was called to the scene by Taliban guards who said “women were causing disruption. These protesters gathered only on the basis of a conspiracy by foreign intelligence.” ” she claimed.
Afghan police woman brutally murdered by Taliban
Reports suggest that the Taliban brutally murdered a police woman in Firozkoh, the capital of Ghor province. After entering their house on Saturday, they shot a woman named Banu Negar and mutilated her face. It is said that she was murdered in front of her husband and children.
Witnesses confirmed to the BBC that the incident happened on Saturday. The report also said that the woman’s relatives sent photographs of the woman’s mutilated face and body to the news organization.
However, the Taliban has denied involvement in the incident. Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told the BBC: “We are aware of this incident and I can confirm that the Taliban did not kill him, our investigation is ongoing.”
Sex workers ‘kill list’
Reports early last week said the Taliban was exploring pornographic websites in order to contain ‘murder lists’ of sex workers in the country. A Sun Online report said videos of Afghan sex workers were discovered by Taliban death squads on various porn sites. Sources told the Sun that the sex workers who are being hunted will be gang-raped before being stoned or put to death.
“They pretend to condemn pornography, but are digging deep into the most obscure and deeply hidden adult sites to find videos that show Afghan brothels so they can identify and slaughter women who or enslave them. Since the videos show clear location markers of brothels, these women could now be put in grave danger of abduction or murder in the most horrific ways,” a source told The Sun Online.
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Folk singer dragged from home, killed
Afghan folk singer Fawad Andarabi was dragged from his home and killed by the Taliban in August, days after he promised an “apology”. The incident took place in Andrab Valley of North Baglan province. The singer’s son Jawad told AP that he was shot in the head. His son said, “He was innocent, a singer who was only entertaining people.”
Like in Negar’s case, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the AP that the insurgents would investigate the incident, but had no other details about the killing.
The incident has caused great outrage in the international community. “There is mounting evidence that the Taliban of 2021 is the same as the intolerant, violent, repressive Taliban of 2001. 20 years later. Nothing has changed on that front,” Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard said on Twitter.
Deutsche Welle reporter’s relative murdered
On 20 August German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle said the Taliban shot dead a family member of one of its journalists in Afghanistan and seriously injured another.
Deutsche Welle said in a statement that Taliban fighters were searching for a Deutsche Welle reporter and searching homes in western Afghanistan. It said other family members managed to escape. According to the AP, Deutsche Weil said the reporter himself, whose identity was not disclosed, is already based in Germany where he is also working. Deutsche Welle did not provide further details about the family members killed and injured or where and when the killings took place in Afghanistan.
Deutsche Welle’s director, Peter Limberg, said: “The killing of a close family member of one of our journalists by the Taliban is incredibly tragic and a testament to the imminent danger that all of our activists and their families are being exposed to in Afghanistan.”
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