The Taliban will not rule out stoning and public executions in exchange for Sharia – World News

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A Taliban spokesman refused to refuse to return to barbaric punishments such as stoning, amputations and public executions because Afghanistan was on the verge of collapse.

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Afghan officials say the Taliban have entered the outskirts of the capital, Kabul

The Taliban have refused to rule out the use of barbaric sanctions and have vowed to return to sharia law as the Western-backed Afghan government falters.

A spokesman for the terrorist group did not rule out the possibility of using brutal practices such as stoning, amputation of hands and feet, and public executions again.

“I cannot say now that it is up to the judges in the courts and the laws,” spokesman Sohail Shaheen told the BBC as Jemaah Islamiyah gunmen advanced into Kabul on Sunday.

He added, “The judges will be appointed in accordance with the law of the future government.”

The Taliban refused to rule out a return to public executions (

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With the country on the verge of collapse, Shaheen emphasized that Afghanistan would return to Islamic law, adding: “Of course we want an Islamic government.”

He also said that the groups’ “policy” is that women and girls will continue to have access to education and work.

However, that is not what is reported to be happening on the ground amid a lightning advance by the Taliban after the withdrawal of US-led forces last month.

A government minister said power would be handed over to an interim administration.

A group of schoolgirls walk on a street in Kabul as Taliban fighters entered the city on Sunday (

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Britain is sending 600 troops – including Barras from 16 air assault brigades – on a mission to support the eventual departure of remaining UK nationals as well as Afghans who have worked with the UK in the country.

It was understood that the main elements of the British force were in Kabul amid fears that they could fall within days or hours.

In an indication of the speed of the breakdown, arrangements were reportedly made to expel British Ambassador Sir Laurie Bristow out of the country.

Boris Johnson is preparing to summon Parliament to discuss the crisis.

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The United States has evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter, 20 years after US-led forces ousted the Taliban from power in the wake of the September 2001 terrorist attacks.

A senior Afghan Interior Ministry official told Reuters the Taliban were coming “from all sides” to the capital, but gave no further details. There were no reports of fighting.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement that the movement is in talks with the government for the peaceful surrender of Kabul.

“Taliban fighters will be on standby at all entrances to Kabul until a peaceful and satisfactory transfer of power is agreed upon,” the statement said.

A Taliban fighter carries a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) on the side of the road in Herat, Afghanistan’s third largest city (

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Acting Interior Minister Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal said in a tweet on Tolo news channel that power would be handed over to a transitional administration.

“There will be no attack on the city, it is agreed that there will be a peaceful handover,” he said, without going into details.

A Taliban source in the Qatari capital said that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, head of the Taliban’s political bureau, was heading to Kabul from Doha.

A tweet from the Afghan presidential palace account stated that shooting was heard at a number of points around Kabul but that security forces, in coordination with international partners, took control of the city.

The United States evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter

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Many of Kabul’s streets were choked with cars, residents said, and people were either trying to rush home or get to the airport.

“Some people left their keys in the car and started walking to the airport,” a resident told Reuters by phone.

Another said, “People are all going home for fear of fighting.”

Afghans have fled the provinces to enter Kabul in recent days, fearing the return of hard-line Islamic rule

Earlier on Sunday, the rebels captured the eastern city of Jalalabad without a fight, giving them control of one of the main highways to landlocked Afghanistan.

They also captured the nearby Torkham border post with Pakistan, leaving the Kabul airport the only way out of Afghanistan which is still in government hands.

Taliban fighters roam the opulent gold palace of warlord after fleeing from Taliban fighters entering Kabul from all sides after capturing every city in Afghanistan.

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