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In April 14 2021, President Biden announces that the United States will not meet the
deadline set under the U.S.-Taliban agreement to withdraw all troops by May 1 and
instead releases a plan for a full withdrawal by September 11, 2021. “It’s time to end
America’s longest war,” he says.
Many of those changes involve women. Not only they have been free to leave home
unaccompanied. He added that the requirement they be accompanied by a male guardian,
known as a mahram. It applies only to journeys of three days or longer, he said.“If they go to
school, the office, university, or the hospital, they don’t need a mahram,” said Mr. Mujahid,
who also serves as the Taliban’s chief spokesman.
The last time the Taliban were in power, they barred women and girls from taking most jobs
or going to school. Taliban officials are trying to reassure women that things will be
different, but there are signs that, at least in some areas, they have begun to reimpose the
old order.
“Cutting off of hands is very necessary for security,” Nooruddin Turabi told the Associated
Press.
The country’s rulers are deciding whether they will dole out these punishments in public in
the way they once did — sometimes at a Kabul sports stadium with crowds watching — he
added.
“No one will tell us what our laws should be,” said the former justice minister, who is
running the prisons.
The German government has called on the Taliban to show restraint, protect the lives of the
Afghan people and make sure needed humanitarian aid can reach them.
Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden said in a statement before the Taliban entered Kabul: “One more
year, or five more years, of US military presence would not have made a difference if the
Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country.
“And an endless American presence in the middle of another country’s civil conflict was not
acceptable to me.”
INDIA
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar briefed the Opposition parties on India’s Afghanistan
policy in the wake of the Taliban takeover. The main focus of his briefing was on India’s
evacuation effort, but he also added that the Indian government’s policy is to wait and
watch.