Taliban says it will allow Afghan women to work and study, and assured protection for journalists.
The group’s spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, disclosed this at its first press conference in Kabul on Tuesday, after the group’s stunning takeover of Afghanistan.
Mujahid, who had been a shadowy figure for years, said that “there will be no discrimination against women” adding that “they are going to work shoulder to shoulder with us.”
“We are going to allow women to work and study. We have got frameworks, of course. Women are going to be very active in the society but within the framework of Islam,” Mujahid said.
Following a lightning offensive across Afghanistan that saw many cities fall to the group with minimal resistance, the Taliban has sought to portray itself as more moderate than when it imposed a brutal rule in the late 1990s.
When asked how the new Taliban government will differ from the previous one, Mujahid said that the group has evolved and will not take the same actions they did in the past.
“There will be a difference when it comes to the actions we are going to take” compared with 20 years ago, he said.
