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US Needs Afghanistan Watchdog, Experts Say, After Biden Admin Obstructs Accountability Efforts

November 16, 2022 Analytical articles

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Daily Caller News Foundation

Quincy Institute

November 12, 20223:23 PM ET

The Biden administration is stonewalling the independent Afghanistan watchdog organization authorized by Congress in 2008, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Executive agencies argued that their efforts fall outside of SIGAR’s mandate, but experts disagreed, saying the organization is vital for accountability.
“The bottom line is that institutions don’t like to be held accountable, but the American people deserve oversight,” Adam Weinstein, a research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft who served in Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine, told the DCNF.

The U.S. still needs the Afghanistan watchdog organization despite recent Biden administration efforts to thwart ongoing investigations into the White House’s military withdrawal and ongoing assistance to the country, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The watchdog’s latest quarterly report alleged the Biden administration agencies refused to comply with requests for information, threatening to nullify the organization’s mission to provide oversight of past and ongoing reconstruction projects. However, the Special Investigator General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, will remain vital until the U.S. ceases sending aid to the Taliban-controlled country, experts told the DCNF.

“The Biden administration is attempting to bypass SIGAR, without a doubt,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior fellow Bill Roggio told the DCNF, adding that Biden’s ongoing push to reengage with Afghanistan is “politically unpopular, so it’s tempting to hide.”

The administration is “invested in continuing to cover up the true costs of their disastrous withdrawal last year. This could be an important stepping off point for hearings and investigations by the new Congress,” Simone Ledeen, former senior U.S. Treasury representative to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, said to the DCNF.

Executive agencies, particularly the Treasury Department and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), refused to provide requested documents related to $1.1 billion in humanitarian aid distributed to Afghanistan since the Biden administration’s withdrawal in Aug. 2021, SIGAR claimed in the report. The State Department complied with a limited number of requests, concealing key details.

Congress authorized SIGAR in 2008 to account for waste, fraud and abuse relating to millions in aid sent to rebuild Afghan society during the U.S.’ 20-year war against the Taliban.

The executive agencies’ decision to obstruct the desired information release violates SIGAR’s congressional mandate and undermines the American people’s interests, watchdog head John Sopko said in the preface to the report.

The agencies are “only going to release information that makes them look good, and they’re going to hide information that they don’t like,” Daniel Davis, a researcher at Defense Priorities who served in Afghanistan and blew the whistle on senior military leaders’ misrepresentation of the war’s progress, told the DCNF. “No matter what the reality was, the message to all the American people would get would be, ‘This is great, it’s going good, everything’s working and it’s a success,’ and we’ll have no way to independently verify that.”

Top Republican lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee on Monday called on SIGAR to shed further light on State Department and USAID obstruction efforts in a letter. Among other things, the lawmakers requested SIGAR come forth with comments it claimed to have received from a State Department official that the agency prohibited staff from communicating with investigators without approval from the State Department’s legal advisers.

“The Biden Administration is seeking to avoid transparency, and therefore, accountability for its deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Ranking Member James Comer and National Security Subcommittee head Glenn Grothman wrote in the letter.

“The Biden Administration’s ongoing obstruction is unacceptable and potentially illegal,” the lawmakers added.

SIGAR is complying with the requests made in the letter, a SIGAR spokesperson told the DCNF.

“Treasury has complied with all legal requirements and shared information with SIGAR,” a Treasury Department spokesperson told the DCNF.

A USAID spokesperson argued that any donations since fall outside the realm of “reconstruction” assistance SIGAR was stood up to monitor.

“Nonetheless, since August, USAID has continued to cooperate and provide information to SIGAR, with upwards of 25 evaluations, audits and other engagements,” the spokesperson said.

As part of the 2022 budget process, SIGAR requested an expansion of its mandate from “reconstruction” to “reconstruction, humanitarian, and other development assistance” for Afghanistan, a State Department spokesperson told the DCNF.

“That expansion has not been enacted into law and, as such, activities involving humanitarian and development assistance remain outside SIGAR’s current mandate,” the spokesperson said.

Adam Weinstein, a research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft who served in Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine, told the DCNF he did not believe the Biden administration had pressed on an organized campaign to nullify SIGAR; however, “the bottom line is that institutions don’t like to be held accountable, but the American people deserve oversight.”

“I’m sure you can keep working and find productive ways to spend the taxpayer dollar and find out about the stuff and put it on paper for a long time to come. The problem is not so much [Sopko] or the statute or his mission; it’s the fact that nobody really cares,” Gil Barndollar, a senior fellow at Defense Priorities who also deployed to Afghanistan as a Marine, told the DCNF.

Barndollar said he harbored concerns the Republicans in Congress, particularly if they achieve a majority in either house, will wield SIGAR’s post-withdrawal findings to stir up opposition to the Biden administration.

Congress also created the Afghanistan War Commission in 2021, a bipartisan coalition tasked to review the decisions in the 20 years leading up to the Afghanistan withdrawal, legislated through the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.

However, SIGAR should continue to hold the administration accountable as long as the U.S. is contributing financially to Afghanistan, multiple experts told the DCNF.

“I think there is still a lot for SIGAR to dig into,” said Weinstein. “Shutting it down now would be akin to sweeping a lot of waste, incompetence, and corruption under the rug. Furthermore, it is still looking into current events.”

The Biden administration plans to return billions in frozen assets through a special Swiss-based “Afghan Fund” for eventual transfer to the Afghan Central Bank, according to a joint statement from the U.S. Treasury Department and State Department. Officials have expressed concern the Taliban would seize the funds the U.S. says belong to the Afghan people.

SIGAR is “vitally important because that’s our only advocate, if you will, to find out what the hell’s going on” with U.S. aid to Afghanistan, said Davis.

The White House did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

‘In Her Hands’ Review: A Young Woman’s Resolve as Life Unravels

November 16, 2022 Analytical articles

The New York Times

Nov. 16, 2022

In Her Hands: Directed by Tamana Ayazi, Marcel Mettelsiefen

Tamana Ayazi and Marcel Mettelsiefen’s new documentary, “In Her Hands,” scrambles as it chases a moving target. When the film begins in January 2020, their subject, the 26-year-old Zarifa Ghafari, is one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors, and a beleaguered but determined champion of women’s rights. By the time the movie wraps up in early 2022, Ghafari has survived a murder attempt, lost her father to an assassination and sought asylum in Germany after the Taliban’s 2021 recapture of Kabul. “In Her Hands” struggles to keep up with these escalating developments, leaving loose ends at every turn.

Executive produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, the film is so enamored with Ghafari’s status as an exceptional symbol — a powerful woman in a man’s world — that her actual work as a politician gets short shrift. We see her receiving an award in Washington, D.C., and giving speeches about the importance of women’s education, but learn little about how she became the mayor, what her policies are or what her constituents think of her.

At points, the lack of context is not just sloppy but irresponsible. When Ghafari is transferred from her town of Maidan Shar to a job in Kabul, her bodyguard, Massoum, now unemployed, starts socializing with Taliban fighters. Offering little insight into his motivations, the film makes the troubling implication that Ghafari’s abandonment has driven him to the other side.

Ghafari’s most difficult decision — to flee the country after having insisted on staying with her people — is given the same cursory treatment. Footage of desperate Afghans crowding airports, trying to escape, makes the urgency of the situation palpable, but it also obfuscates the logistics of Ghafari’s own exit and the questions of access and privilege it raises. These sanded edges only do a disservice to a complex, courageous young woman faced with unimaginable choices.

In Her Hands
Rated PG-13 for troubling images of war, violence and despair. In Dari, Pashto and English, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 32 minutes. Watch on Netflix.

In Her Hands

Authorities Say Property Must Be Reclaimed From Land Grabbers

November 16, 2022 Current News Articles

Nazir Shinwari

Tolo News

14 Nov 2022

According to Nomani, these lands have been taken all over the country and efforts are ongoing to get them back.

Mawlawi Hamdullah Nomani, the acting Minister of Urban Development and Land, said in a gathering that 80% of public lands have been seized by unlawful owners.

According to Nomani, these lands have been taken all over the country and efforts are ongoing to get them back.

In a gathering organized by the commission to prevent land grabbing, Nomani said that land grabbing is a challenge for the Islamic Emirate and that new procedures were distributed to the commission’s provincial members.

“80% of government lands are being used by people who took it by mistake and did not mean to commit this offense,” Nomani said.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Emirate has prioritized the issue of regaining the land, according to members of the committee to prevent land grabbing.

The country’s acting minister of justice, Abdul Hakim Sharaee, said that hundreds of thousands of acres of land have been illegally taken.

“In some areas, for instance, people have obtained the authorization to take 30 acres of land, but it has expanded to 60 acres. As a result, hundreds of thousands of acres of land have been taken over in these areas,” Sharaee said.

At the gathering, officials of the Administrative Office of the Islamic Emirate pledged that they will not allow anyone to take the land.

“Compared to other nations, there are many cases of land grabbing in the country. There are countless issues in every province and district,” said Noorulhaq Anwar, head of the office.

“There are certain biased groups to push this problem to the side of politics, but you should know that technical teams should pay attention to this before others find out,” said Shamsuddin Shariati, attorney general.

It is expected that the government lands will be retaken from land grabbers in accordance with the new process of the commission to prevent land grabbing, whose charter contains four chapters and twenty-one articles.

SIGAR Gives Six Factors in Republic Govt Collapse

November 16, 2022 Current News Articles

Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai

Head of TOLO

15 Nov 2022

The Afghan government failed to realize that the US would “actually” exit from Afghanistan, SIGAR said.

The US Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) in a recent report identified six factors it said led to the collapse of the former republic government of Afghanistan.

The Afghan government failed to realize that the US would “actually” exit from Afghanistan, SIGAR said.

“Even as the United States officially expressed its desire to exit Afghanistan in the years leading up to its departure, contradictory messaging by US officials undermined efforts to convey the seriousness of US intentions to Afghan officials who optimistically believed that alternative scenarios were possible,” the report said.

According to SIGAR, the Afghan government was fundamentally unprepared to manage the fight against the Taliban as the United States military and its contractors withdrew.

The second reason for the fall of the western backed government of former President Ashraf Ghani, SIGAR said, was the exclusion of the Afghan government from “US-Taliban talks” that weakened and undermined the Afghan government.

The report said that the “Taliban’s refusal” to talk to the Afghan government without first negotiating with the United States was an obstacle to a sustainable peace in Afghanistan, and thus, the US sought to “circumvent this by dealing first with the Taliban in the hopes it could set the stage for an intra-Afghan peace process and possibly an Afghan political settlement.”

“But the US-Taliban agreement did not have that effect,” the report cited, adding that instead, the “Taliban reinvigorated its battlefield campaign against the Afghan government, which was weakened by its exclusion from US-Taliban talks and the perception that the United States was withdrawing its support.”

The Afghan government’s insistence on effectively integrating the Taliban into the Republic also made progress on peace negotiations difficult. This was the third reason, according to SIGAR.

“When intra-Afghan talks started in September 2020, security conditions were poor, with Taliban attacks “above seasonal norms,” the report said, citing US military information. In the meantime, the political instability had increased after the highly contested September 2019 US presidential election, which was marred by allegations of fraud.

“Exclusion from US-Taliban talks, and the subsequent signing of the February 2020 agreement, were further blows to the credibility of the Afghan government,” SIGAR said.

The fourth reason given by SIGAR was the “unwillingness of the Taliban to compromise” who were emboldened by their deal with the US, SIGAR said.

“From that point onward, the insurgency increasingly focused on defeating the Afghan government on the battlefield,” the report reads.

For the fifth reason, SIGAR blames former President Ashraf Ghani who “governed through a highly selective, narrow circle of loyalists, destabilizing the government at a critical juncture.”

“The president’s political and social isolation appears to have been a function of both his personality, and his desire to centralize and micromanage policy implementation,” the report said.

The sixth and final reason was, the Afghan government’s high level of centralization, endemic corruption, and struggle to attain legitimacy were long-term contributors to its eventual collapse.

“The Bonn Conference, convened in late 2001, established a process for the construction of a new political order in Afghanistan that involved the adoption of a new constitution and democratic elections,” the report reads.

Despite ‘Ban’ on Opium, Afghanistan’s Poppy Crop Is Growing

November 15, 2022 Analytical articles

By Lynne O’DonnelForeign Policy
November 2, 2022

More drugs and higher prices a year after the Taliban takeover.

The Taliban that took over Afghanistan after a 20-year war largely funded by heroin trafficking have, after pretending to ban drugs, instead turbocharged the cultivation and sale of narcotics a year after their takeover. While the United States and other international donors continue to pour money into the country hoping to avoid mass hunger over the winter, the terrorist-led group is raking in huge sums from the illicit traffic that supplies 80 percent of the world’s heroin.

Two new reports show the failure of U.S. diplomacy to cajole the Taliban into making the transition from insurgency to government. A huge expansion of opium poppy production reflects the Taliban’s control of the major southern growing regions that were the hottest battlegrounds as the then-insurgents fought to get their drugs to market. Now business is booming, and a nominal ban on drug production has only pushed prices—and the potential Taliban take from the illicit trade—higher.

The reports by the U.S. Congress-mandated Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) and the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) are just the latest evidence of the Taliban’s disconnect from the norms of governance and the impunity they enjoy while flouting international law. Heroin trafficking has long been a hallmark of the Taliban, accounting for an estimated half a billion dollars in annual income in the final years of the group’s war against the U.S.-backed republic government. Fighting seasons throughout the insurgency coincided with the cycle of the poppy crop—planting, cultivation, and trucking of the raw opium to warehouses for conversion to heroin. Organized crime grew on the back of cooperation with the Taliban. Addiction rates in neighbors including Pakistan, Iran, Central Asian states, and Russia were a huge source of friction between these countries and the United States, which was more focused on eradicating South American cocaine. Nevertheless, billions of dollars were spent on failed poppy eradication and substitution programs.

Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada in April announced a ban on growing opium, the raw material for heroin and other highly addictive opiates, but this just pushed prices to record highs for farmers, the latest UNODC report said. The report said opium cultivation soared 32 percent in the year since the Taliban retook control, even if drought and other climate challenges cut the overall yield by 10 percent. The harvest produced an estimated 6,200 tons of raw opium, the report said, enough to produce between 350 and 580 tons of export-quality heroin.

Despite Akhundzada’s vow to punish opium cultivation, there is little evidence so far that the Taliban are interfering in any way with southern farmers as they plant the 2023 crop, SIGAR determined. That suggests that the next crop will be at least as big as this year’s, even as prices remain inflated—the price of dry opium is nearly twice as high as before the Taliban takeover. So good were this season’s opium prices, the UNODC said, that farmers’ income from opium sales “tripled from $425 million in 2021 to $1.4 billion in 2022,” equal to 29 percent of the total value of the 2021 agricultural sector. Since opium is stored in stockpiles, those higher prices can ripple through illicit trafficking networks for years; it can take up to 18 months for a poppy harvest to reach global markets as refined heroin.

“The sum still represents only a fraction of the income made from production and trafficking within the country. Increasingly larger sums are further accrued along the illicit drug supply chain outside the country,” the report noted.

But a former UNODC agent, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the figures in the report are likely to be underestimates. With the return of the Taliban to power, the country has become a legal black hole. Without the cooperation of the de facto authorities, U.N. agencies are no longer able to monitor the size of the poppy crop or opium yield, as they don’t have the access they did under the republic. “They can no longer get samples out to have the purity of the opium properly assessed, so there is no way of accurately knowing how much heroin the crop can produce,” the former UNODC agent said. He described the report as “a shiny brochure based on satellite imaging and guesswork.”

As dire as the picture in opium trade is, the report makes little mention of the lower-cost, higher-return trade in methamphetamine, which the Taliban moved into some years ago; the agency has neither the budget nor mandate to track it. Yet domestic meth seizures both on the street and at the borders were much higher than heroin seizures even under the republic, the former agent said.

But even the higher prices and incomes for farmers are offset by the economic collapse Afghanistan has seen under Taliban rule. The UNODC report noted that the poor spend about two-thirds of their income on food. But the more lucrative trade in heroin is exacerbating Afghanistan’s dire food situation because poppy cultivation is displacing food crops, especially in southern Afghanistan.

The SIGAR report noted that 90 percent of Afghans don’t get enough to eat, with acute food insecurity present in every single Afghan province. Some 19 million Afghans face “potentially life-threatening levels of hunger,” the report said.

The United States has led the way in aid for Afghanistan, providing more than $1 billion to the country since the Taliban takeover. But much of the assistance is distributed by nongovernmental organizations that must have Taliban approval, said local charity sources, who suspect much is diverted to Taliban supporters. Yet for the first time ever, SIGAR said, it was unable to provide a full accounting of U.S. government spending. It said the U.S. Treasury and U.S. Agency for International Development refused to cooperate with SIGAR in any way, while the State Department has been selective in its disclosures. The Biden administration has been widely condemned for enabling the Taliban with regular injections of cash and aid while failing to ensure that it reaches people in need. SIGAR’s concerns add to the perception that U.S. financial and diplomatic support is enabling the brutal and misogynistic regime.

SIGAR officials declined to comment, but the Hill reported that Inspector General John Sopko had informed Congress of “repeated and continuing refusal to provide information and assistance requested by my office” on a range of issues, including women’s rights, humanitarian aid delivery, and refugee support.

Lynne O’Donnell is a columnist at Foreign Policy and an Australian journalist and author. She was the Afghanistan bureau chief for Agence France-Presse and the Associated Press between 2009 and 2017.

Afghan supreme leader orders full implementation of sharia law

November 15, 2022 Current News Articles

Agence France-Presse in Kabul

Afghanistan’s supreme leader has ordered judges to fully enforce aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stonings, floggings and the amputation of limbs for thieves, the Taliban’s chief spokesperson said.

Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted on Sunday that the “obligatory” command by Haibatullah Akhundzada came after the secretive leader met with a group of judges.

Akhundzada, who has not been filmed or photographed in public since the Taliban returned to power in August last year, rules by decree from Kandahar, the movement’s birthplace and spiritual heartland.

The Taliban promised a softer version of the harsh rule that characterised their first stint in power, from 1996-2001, but have gradually clamped down on rights and freedoms.

“Carefully examine the files of thieves, kidnappers and seditionists,” 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.”

Mujahid was not available on Monday to expand on his tweet.

Hudud refers to offences for 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.

Islamic scholars say crimes leading to hudud punishment require a very high degree of proof, including – in the case of adultery – confession, or being witnessed by four adult male Muslims.

Since last year’s takeover, videos and pictures of Taliban fighters meting out summary floggings to people accused of various offences have appeared frequently on social media.

On several occasions the Taliban have also displayed in public the bodies of kidnappers who they said were killed in shootouts.

There have also been reports of adulterers being flogged in rural areas after Friday prayers, but independent verification has been difficult to obtain.

Rahima Popalzai, a legal and political analyst, said the edict could be an attempt by the Taliban to harden a reputation they may feel has softened since their return to power.

“If they really start to implement hudud and qisas, they will be aiming to create the fear that society has gradually lost,” she said, adding that the Taliban also wanted to burnish their Islamic credentials. “As a theocratic setup, the Taliban want to strengthen their religious identity among Muslim countries.”

The hard-won rights of women in particular have evaporated in the past 15 months, and they are increasingly being squeezed out of public life.

Most female government workers have lost their jobs, or are being paid a pittance to stay at home, while women are also barred from travelling without a male relative and must cover up with a burqa or hijab when outside the home.

In the past week, the Taliban also banned women from entering parks, funfairs, gyms and public baths.

During their first period of rule, the Taliban regularly carried out punishments in public, including floggings and executions at Ghazi stadium in Kabul.

US Urges Formation of Inclusive Govt in Afghanistan

November 15, 2022 Current News Articles

Imran Danish

Tolo News

15 Nov 2022

EU to Provide €75 Million in Aid to Afghanistan

November 15, 2022 Current News Articles

Bibi Amina Amina Hakimi

Tolo News

15 Nov 2022

According to the statement, the EU commission announced a new humanitarian aid package of €210 million ahead of the G-20 summit in Bali.

The European Commission has allocated €75 million in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan to address the food security situation, adding in a statement that an estimated 24 million people are in need, and that winter and natural disasters have recently affected the country.

According to the statement, the EU Commission announced a new humanitarian aid package of €210 million ahead of the G-20 summit in Bali.

The aid is to be provided in 15 countries to meet their growing needs, the statement said.

“In 2022, food insecurity reached unprecedented levels, both in scale and severity with at least 205 million people currently acutely food insecure and requiring urgent assistance,” the report said.

“This is the highest level on record. Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen remain at risk of famine.”

Afghanistan has recently plunged into an economic crisis that has triggered a severe humanitarian situation.

“The aid was not distributed as well as the people expected it to be. We request the government to pay further attention to it,” said Ajmal Bahavi, a resident of Kabul.

“The aid should be given to poor and vulnerable people, not to those who have one or two cars, or have a luxury residence,” said Mohammad Qassim, a resident of Kabul.

The Ministry of Economy welcomed the aid provided by the European Union but stressed that if the aid is provided in coordination with the Islamic Emirate, it will improve the livelihood of the Afghan people.

“Considering the economic problems, and the start of winter, if this aid is distributed in coordination with the ministries and based on plans, it will improve the livelihood of our citizens,” he said.

Earlier, the EU announced a package of €50 million.

According to Da Afghanistan Bank (Central Bank), more than $1.5 billion of humanitarian cash aid has arrived since the Islamic Emirate came to power in the country.

According to the statement, a total of €75 million will be provided to Afghanistan.

The rest of the €210 million package will go to East and Southern Africa, Middle East and Latin America.

Islamic Emirate Leader Orders Full Implementation of Sharia Law

November 14, 2022 Current News Articles

Imran Danesh

Tolo News

14 Nov 2022

Meanwhile, Yousef Ahmadi, the PM’s spokesperson, told TOLOnews that the order of the leader of the Islamic Emirate will be implemented throughout the country.

The leader of the Islamic Emirate, Mawlawi Hebatullah Akhundzada, has ordered judges to fully implement Islamic law on criminals.

The Islamic Emirate’s spokesperson said on his Twitter page that Mawlawi Hebatullah Akhundzada had ordered the judges to carefully investigate the cases of kidnappers, thieves, and seditionists.

“Mawlawi Hebatullah in meeting with the judges, told them to investigate the cases of thieves, kidnappers and seditionists properly. Those cases that have reached all the requirements of the Sharia retribution, you (judges) are obliged to implement retribution,” said Enayatullah, deputy spokesman of the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, Yousef Ahmadi, the PM’s spokesperson, told TOLOnews that the order of the leader of the Islamic Emirate will be implemented throughout the country.

“Those who are involved in murder, kidnapping and theft must be punished for their actions,” Ahmadi said.

However, some political experts said that it will be difficult to implement all aspects of Islamic law in the current situation.

“The Islamic Emirate should make its decision on this matter, whether it stresses the internal dimension or on the foreign dimension, it should move accordingly,” said Janat Fahim Chakari, a political expert.

“The Islamic system is complete when all of its aspects are observed; if all aspects are not implemented, the system is not called an Islamic system. In my opinion, it is a good thing that all aspects should be implemented,” said Sayed Akbar Agha, another political expert.

But some Kabul citizens ask that criminals be punished fairly.

“Justice must be done, and cases must be handled by having documents, proof, in all cases,” said Nazir Ahmadzai, a resident of Kabul.

“Each order has certain principles and regulations. This kind of work shouldn’t be done without guidelines and principles,” said, another resident of Kabul.

This is the first time that the leader of the Islamic Emirate has issued a formal order to fully implement all aspect of Islamic law throughout the country since the Islamic Emirate came to power.

University Instructors Abroad Encouraged to Return

November 14, 2022 Current News Articles

Banafsha Binesh

Tolo News

14 Nov 2022

More drugs and higher prices a year after the Taliban takeover.

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