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Taliban leader hints at return of execution, amputations in Afghanistan
A Taliban leader identified as Mullah Nooruddin Turabi has insisted that executions, amputations will return to Afghanistan.
Turabi who had been one of the chief enforcers of the hardline interpretation of the Islamic law made the disclosure during an interview with The Associated Press.
During the Taliban’s previous rule, Turabi was the justice minister and head of the so-called Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice — effectively, the religious police.
Now in his early 60s, the Taliban leader however revealed that they will avoid the public show of the harsh punishments but the laws must be followed.
“Everyone criticized us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments,” Turabi told The Associated Press. “No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran.”
“Cutting off of hands is very necessary for security,” he said and added that such punishments had a deterrent effect. He said the Cabinet was studying whether to do punishments in public and will “develop a policy.”
While some Afghans deserted their country before the Taliban took complete control many await their fates as attempts to escape the country failed.
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