The official statements were a clear attempt by the Taliban to reassure a jittery populace unsure what to make of their new overseers. How successful that attempt will be — and how long any soft touch will last — remains to be seen.
In a bid to restore calm and reassure a shell-shocked capital, the Taliban announced a “general amnesty” and urged government employees — including women — to return to work as Afghans continued to recalibrate their existenceAn official in the Taliban’s cultural commission, Enamullah Samangani, made the amnesty announcement in a statement he read out on state television, which the Taliban had commandeered.
Crucially, Samangani added that women should participate in government and that the “the Islamic Emirate” — the Taliban’s name for Afghanistan — “doesn’t want women to be victims,” despite the group’s“They should be in government structure according to Sharia law,” Samangani said, but acknowledged that the structure was “not fully clear.
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