The Taliban department released a Saturday statement outlining how Islam still safeguards women’s rights although these rules exceed Western norms.
The Afghan authorities delivered these statements even as international communities continued to scrutinize their gender-related decision-making procedures.
Issue chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid used his X platform to publish a statement excluding any mention of the March 8 International Women’s Day.
Islamic law together with Afghan cultural customs protects the basic rights that Afghan women uphold. Mujahid explained that rights discussion for Afghan women must take place in light of Islamic and Afghan cultural values which stand apart from Western norms and traditions.
Taliban and women’s rights
The Taliban prevents all girls from obtaining higher education than the sixth grade level and removes women from employment while restricting public environment access since their takeover in 2021.
In August 2021 the vice and virtue ministry of Afghanistan published restrictive laws which prohibited women to show their faces without coverings outside their homes.
The comments surface soon after the United Nations demanded the Taliban to remove those restrictions.
History
Taliban controlled nearly all of Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001. The U.S. and allied forces invaded the country in 2001 and shortly drove the Taliban regime from power for its refusal to surrender terrorist leader Osama bin Laden following the al-Qaeda 9/11 attacks.
After the invasion by U.S.-led forces, description goes here, then instead flowed over to neighboring Pakistan, from where they conducted an insurgency against the Western-backed government in Kabul, Afghan national security forces, and international coalition troops.
Force Shift to ANDSF: When the U.S.-led coalition formally ended its combat mission in 2014, Afghanistan’s responsibility for security fell to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), but the force faced severe challenges to hold its territory and provide for population centers. Continuous attacks on rural districts, as well as suicide strikes in major cities, were made against ANDSF forces, who sustained heavy casualties.
For nearly six years, pretty much everything remained stalemate in the war, even with the much-talked about increase in the small number of troops in 2017, continued combat missions, and a shift in the U.S. military strategy from going after Taliban forces to targeting sources of revenues for the Taliban, which included air strikes on drug labs and opium production sites.
The brief occupation of the capital of Farah Province occurred in May 2018; later on, in August of that same year, Taliban forces took over the capital of Ghazni Province, capturing the city for nearly a week before U.S. and Afghan troops managed to reclaim its control.
The signing of the so-called Doha Agreement in February 2020, after a little over a year of direct negotiations, sealed the peace deal between the U.S. and the Taliban for the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Specifically, the accord contained provisions by the United States to involve reducing U.S. forces to about 8,500 within 135 days and back out completely within 14 months.
The TA committed itself to preventing the use of territory under its control for the purposes of terrorism and entering negotiations with the Afghan government.
However, no official ceasefire was put in place. Violence that briefly decreased again escalated as the Taliban resumed attacks on Afghan security forces and civilians. Direct negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban commenced months after the agreed beginning of March 2020; however, these talks faced several delays and ultimately have made little headway.
Afghanistan was still a battlefield in 2020-2021 as the U.S. increased air strikes and raids against the Taliban, which, in turn, targeted Afghan government and ANDSF sites while making territorial gains.
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