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The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan after the previous government and US troops left the country. Back to power Taliban will also reinstate the hand-cutting penalty.
Reported The Associated Press (AP), Friday (24/9), one of the founders of the Taliban, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, dismissed public anger about past Taliban-style executions. The cutting of the hand was imposed by the Taliban in the late ’90s.
The Taliban have in the past executed offenders in front of crowds in stadiums. Nooruddin Turabi warns the world not to interfere with the amputation of hands
“Everyone criticized us about the punishment in the stadium, but we never said anything about the law and their punishment,” Turabi said in Kabul.
“No one will be able to teach us how to apply the law. We will follow Islam and we will make laws according to the Quran,” he said.
The 60-year-old Turabi has served as Minister of Justice and Head of the Ministry of Virtue Spreading and Crime Prevention or the religious police. At that time, the world condemned the Taliban-style punishment which took place in Kabul’s sports stadium or in the courtyard of the Eid Gah mosque, sometimes attended by hundreds of Afghan men.
The eyes of the world are on Afghanistan whether the Taliban will reimpose the harsh rules of the late ’90s or not. Turabi explained that Taliban leaders still have conservative roots and hardline views even though they are now adapting to technologies such as video and smartphones.
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