Afghan

Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders have issued an order that all Afghan women should wear the all-covering burqa in public. The decree added that if women had no important work outside it was better for them to stay at home The Taliban previously decided against reopening schools to girls above the age of 12 In an interview with The Associated Press, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi dismissed outrage over the Taliban’s executions in the past. The government will continue the Islamic laws on executions and amputations of hands. “No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran.” Summary killings and enforced disappearances have taken place.