‘Strict punishments, executions will return,’ says Taliban leader

Taliban leader Mullah Nooruddin Turabi in an interview with The Associated Press has said that strict punishments like executions and amputation of hands will return in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime. Turabi also warned the world against interfering with Afghanistan’s new rulers. Turabi is currently in charge of prisons, under the new Taliban government.

“Everyone criticised us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments,” Turabi told AP in Kabul.

“No one will tell us what our laws should be. Cutting off of hands is very necessary for security,” he said, saying it had a deterrent effect. He said the cabinet was studying whether to carry out punishments in public and will “develop a policy”.