Islamabad (AP) – Taliban Hard-Liners turned the clock in Afghanistan with the busy repressive decree for the past few days which described their hard rules since the late 1990s.
Girls have been banned from going to school outside sixth grade, women are prohibited from dormitory aircraft if they travel without being delivered by a male relative. Men and women can only visit a public park in separate days and use of cellular phones at the university are prohibited.
International media broadcasts – including BBC Pashto and Persian services, which are broadcast in two Afghan languages - are in the air on weekends. Likewise a series of foreign drama.
Because the Taliban seized the control of the country in mid-August, during the last weeks of Pullout as and NATO after 20 years of war, the international community was worried they would impose the same strict law as when they previously ruled Afghanistan.
The latest attack on women’s rights comes earlier this month, when the Taliban government driven by men and religious violates its promise to allow girls to return to school after sixth grade. The move surprised many of the world – and many in Afghanistan – especially after the Taliban gave all the necessary guarantees” that this would not happen.
The United Nations has called on the dissolution of international media broadcast “another repressive step against Afghans.” The BBC Pashto service website said it was a “worrying development during uncertainty and turbulence.”
More than 6 million Afghans consume independent journalism and do not side with BBC on TV every week and it is very important they are not rejected access there in the future,” said the Head of the BBC Language World Service ‘pull the Kafala to say in a statement on Sunday.
On Monday, a member of the Deputy Department and Taliban’s virtue stood outside the government ministry, ordered male employees without a turban and traditional beard – seen as a symbol of piety – to go home. One employee told to go home said he did not know whether and when he would return to work. He spoke with anonymous requirements, afraid of his safety.
According to a senior Taliban official and the Afghans who are familiar with the Taliban leadership, the urge to return to the past – which resulted in the decree – emerged from a three-day meeting in the South City of Kandahar, the birthplace of Taliban.
They said that the decree came from the demands of the highest leader of the Taliban Ladies, Haibatullah Akhundzada, who seemed to try to direct the country to the end of the 1990s, when the Taliban had forbade women from educational and public spaces, and music that was prohibited, and television and many sports .
The younger among the Taliban disagrees with some of these decrits but they are not comfortable contrary to the elders,” said Torek Farhadi, an analyst who served as an advisor to the previous Afghan government. Farhadi, who has been related to Taliban officials since they returned to power, was not complicated.
The more pragmatic among the Taliban rejected the decree – or at least quietly ignoring them, Farhadi said.
Since the takeover of their country, the Taliban have tried to switch from rebellion and war to rule, with hard-liners more guilty about the pragmatic on how to run the country in the midst of a humanitarian and economic crisis for free.
Taliban leadership is currently different from the government of one Mullah Mohammad Omar, the founder of the Taliban movement in the mid-1990s who ruled with heavy hands. A distribution grew between several in the old guard, which enforced strong government from the past and the younger generation of Taliban leaders who saw the future of involvement with the international community.