Afghanistan | Taliban offers amnesty and pledges to protect women's rights in first press conference
Telegraph, 18 Aug 2021
The Taliban has declared the war in Afghanistan over, and said that all their opponents would be pardoned, as they held their first news conference since seizing power from the Western-backed government in Kabul.
"We don't want any internal or external enemies," the movement's main spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, said.
He said women would be allowed to work and study and "will be very active in society but within the framework of Islam."
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"We don't want any internal or external enemies," the movement's main spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, said.
He said women would be allowed to work and study and "will be very active in society but within the framework of Islam."
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