“Afghanistan is likely to be run by the Taliban under a comparable system to the last time the Islamist militant group was in power, with a senior commander ruling out a democracy and saying that Islamic scholars will decide on the rights of women,” the Washington Post reports.
Afghanistan Will Be Ruled Under Sharia Law
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