There won’t be much clarity on this for some time,” said Hellyer. “There will be many questions about how the Taliban will apply the Sharia, or Islamic law, in Afghanistan. “As for women, they can have their basic rights as per Islamic rules,” Shaheen added.Īccording to HA Hellyer, a fellow at the Centre for Islamic Studies at Cambridge University, this ambiguity may take time to clear. “Let’s wait until the whole system is in place.” “We will proceed in the coming days to go about finding solutions like working on judiciary and religious scholars to review the system and its implementation … in light of the Islamic rules,” Suhail Shaheen, spokesman for the Taliban’s Political Office in Doha, told Al Jazeera. It is, therefore, unclear what life will be like in the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” – the name the Taliban refers to the country by. In the group’s first press conference on Tuesday, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid assured women their rights would be respected “within the framework of Islamic law”, adding that women would have the right to education and work.īut Taliban officials remain vague on rules and restrictions, and how Islamic law will be implemented. It is Sharia law and that is it,” he told Reuters. “We will not discuss what type of political system should we apply in Afghanistan because it is clear. “There will be no democratic system at all because it does not have any base in our country,” he said. He said a council of Islamic scholars will determine the legal system and that an Islamic government will be guided by Islamic law, not the principles of democracy. Following the Taliban’s stunning takeover of the Afghan capital, Kabul, a pressing discussion has revolved around the new government’s legal system and, more specifically, how it will treat women.Īfter the Taliban’s victory last week, senior commander Waheedullah Hashimi laid out the broad strokes of how Afghanistan will be governed.
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