He restated the Taliban’s position that “no one should leave the country.

our policy is that women will have access to education and work, to wear the hijab,” he said. Reports also emerged at the time about forced marriages and sexual violence.Ī Taliban spokesperson, Suhail Shaheen told BBC News that this would not be the case under the Taliban’s new regime. Women were not allowed to appear on TV or have photos of them published and those who broke the rules sometimes suffered humiliation and public beatings by the Taliban’s religious police under the group’s strict interpretation of Islamic law.

Windows were covered to stop women from being seen from the outside and they were discouraged from speaking loudly in case they were heard. They could not work, girls were not allowed to attend school and women had to cover their faces and be accompanied by a male relative if they wanted to venture out of their homes.Īs well as this, women were not allowed to wear high heels because men were not meant to hear women’s footsteps. When the group last ruled Afghanistan, women lived under a highly constricted regime. The Taliban believe in Sharia Law – a strict interpretation of Islamic law that they wish to impose on the nation.Īs well as making strict rules for women when the regime was last in power from 1996 to 2001, the militant group banned television, music and cinema, and destroyed non-Islamic relics – such as in 2001, the famous Bamiyan Buddha statues in central Afghanistan. So, what could the state of Afghanistan look like now under the Taliban? Ideology

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