A Taliban spokesman and negotiator on Sunday disclosed that its militant group is holding talks aimed at forming an “open, inclusive Islamic government” in Afghanistan.
Suhail Shaheen spoke to the AP after the Taliban overran most of the country in a matter of days and pushed into the capital, Kabul, as the United States scrambled to withdraw diplomats and other civilians.
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Earlier, a Taliban official said the group would announce a new government from the presidential palace, but those plans appear to be on hold.
Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday, joining thousands of his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and signalling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking the country.
The Taliban fanned out across the capital, and an official with the militant group said it would soon announce the creation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace in Kabul.
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That was the name of the country under Taliban rule before the militants were ousted by US-led forces after the 9/11 attacks.
Shaheen told NBC News that the Taliban would guarantee women’s right to work and to study as is enshrined in Islamic law, but he did not give details on what this entails. While the Taliban has never explicitly forbidden women from going to school or work, in reality, it often limits girls to only a few years of schooling or bans them from education altogether, according to Human Rights Watch.
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