The Taliban has escalated its attacks against Afghan security forces and civilians over the last few weeks as foreign troops are closing up and withdrawing out completely. While Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) are reported to have forced back the Taliban fighters in some areas in the last 24 hours, the atrocities of the Taliban are evident.<\/p>\n
The Taliban terrorists shot a young girl dead for not wearing a veil, Afghanistan Times reported on Wednesday quoting an official as the Islamist fundamentalist group is trying to reimpose repressive laws in the war-torn region.\u00a0 They dragged Nazaneen, 21, out of a car while she was on her way to Balkh district centre, according to the report and shot her dead.<\/p>\n
The Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid, however, has denied the claims but as the Taliban has ordered on a \u201cgenuine Islamic system\u201d, as the only way to ensure women\u2019s rights are in line with cultural tradition and religious rules, they are demonstrating tough laws on women.<\/p>\n
Under the Taliban\u2019s rigid version of Islamic law, girls were banned from school and women accused of crimes such as adultery were stoned to death in stadiums. Among the group now reportedly controlling 223 districts, they have reimposed severe laws that defined their rule from 1996-2001 before they were ousted by a US-led invasion.<\/p>\n
It is reported that Islamic fundamentalists are forcing women to cover themselves from head to toe and not allowing them to leave home without a male companion. In some parts captured by the Taliban, they have forbidden shops from selling goods to women not accompanied by a male relative. People who are violating the Taliban-set laws suffer punishment including public beatings.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey urged women in a statement to not leave without a relative (Moharam) and also urged men to have beards,\u201d Merajuddin Sharifi, a civil society activist, was quoted as saying by Ariana News last month.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) are reported to have driven back the Taliban fighters in some areas in the last 24 hours. The Afghan defense ministry on Thursday said that the security forces killed at least 303 Taliban terrorists and wounded another 125 in multiple operations carried out in Nangarhar, Laghman, Ghazni, Paktika, Kandahar, Zabul, Herat, Jowzjan, Samangan, Faryab, Sar-e Pol, Helmand, Nimruz, Kunduz, Baghlan and Kapisa provinces.<\/p>\n
Lives that the Afghan War Took Since 2001<\/strong><\/p>\n During the war in Afghanistan (2001\u2013present), over 47,245 civilians, 66,000 to 69,000 Afghan military and police, and more than 51,000 Taliban fighters have been killed as of April 2021. Overall the war has killed 171,000 to 174,000 people in Afghanistan<\/p>\n