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Sharia rule is Taliban's 'lifelong responsibility': supreme leader

The supreme leader of the Taliban authorities said implementing Islamic law in Afghanistan was their "lifelong responsibility" in a speech marking the third anniversary of their return to power. Our responsibility of service to religion, ruling according to sharia, is our lifelong responsibility," leader Hibatullah Akhundzada told security personnel at an air base in southern Kandahar on Wednesday. "We will …

‘Congress gave primacy to Sharia’: BJP invokes Shah Bano case in reaction to Supreme Court's ‘maintenance’ verdict

Reacting to the Supreme Court's judgment that Muslim women are entitled to seek maintenance from their husbands after divorce, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday invoked the controversial Shah Bano case in their attack on the Congress, saying the Rajiv Gandhi government gave primacy to Sharia over the Constitution. In 1985, the Supreme Court allowed Shah Bano's plea for alimony …

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The Supreme Court on April 29 sought the Union Government’s response to a petition filed by a Kerala-based woman, who said she, though born a Muslim, is now a non-believer, and should be governed by the secular statutes rather than the Sharia law. Mr. Padmanabhan submitted that the Supreme Court has already underscored the “fundamental postulate of secularism which treats …

Afghan women will be publicly flogged and stoned to death for “crimes like adultery”, Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has purportedly declared in a new audio message in which he also challenges Western democracies. We both say we defend human rights – we do it as God’s representative and you as the devil’s.” According to Akhundzada, women’s rights as …

In a first official confirmation that the Taliban resorted to strict implementation of Islamic law, the Supreme Court said that nineteen people in northeastern Afghanistan were lashed for adultery, theft and running away from home. A Supreme Court official, Abdul Rahim Rashid, said that 10 men and nine women were lashed 39 times each in Taloqan city in northeastern Takhar …

As the Taliban resorted to the strict implementation of Sharia, 19 people, including nine women, were lashed in Afghanistan’s northeast province for adultery, theft and running away from home. When the Taliban seized power last year in August, they had promised to be more moderate and show leniency toward women and minority rights. However, a Supreme Court official, Abdul Rahim …

Supreme Court Taliban Sharia

On Thursday, November 18, a Taliban spokesperson said that their ‘supreme leader’ Haibatullah Akhundzada has recently ordered Afghan judges to fully execute Sharia law provisions such as public executions, stoning, flogging, and amputation of limbs of persons guilty of specific offences. Taliban’s chief spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid had also taken to Twitter on Sunday, November 13, to inform that Haibatullah Akhundzada …

Afghan supreme leader orders full enforcement of Islamic law

Afghanistan's supreme leader has ordered judges to fully enforce aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stonings and floggings, and the amputation of limbs for thieves, the Taliban's chief spokesman said. Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted late on Sunday that the "obligatory" command by Haibatullah Akhundzada came after the secretive leader met with a group of judges. Hudud refers to offences …

NCPCR challenges marriage of minor girls in Sharia as ‘sexual assault’; Supreme Court ready to examine

NCPCR has challenged an order of Punjab and Haryana High Court from June this year wherein it had cited Sharia Law and held that a 16-year-old Muslim girl could enter into a valid marriage New Delhi: The Supreme Court has agreed to examine a petition of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights challenging an order of Punjab and …

Grim Reminder of Taliban Past: Seven Afghan Men Flogged on ‘First Such’ Supreme Court Order

Afghanistan may be governed by a council now that the Taliban have taken over, while Islamist group’s supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada would likely remain in overall charge, a senior member of the group said. Timeline | U.S., Taliban and Afghanistan: 20 years of bloodshed “Maybe his deputy will play the role of President,” Mr. Hashimi said, speaking in English. New …