Taliban Official Says Strict Punishment And Executions will be given to the culprits

 Taliban announces harsh executions in Afghanistan, such as re-execution and amputation

The Taliban government's religious police chief says harsh punishments such as the death penalty and amputation of hands will now be repeated in Afghanistan.

Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, in charge of prisons in the Taliban government, told the Associated Press (AP) that punishments such as amputation of hands were "necessary for security."

He said the sentences would probably no longer be given in public, as was the case under the previous Taliban regime in the 1990s.

However, he rejected criticism of public executions in the past, saying "no one needs to tell us what our laws should be."

Since taking control of Afghanistan on August 15, the Taliban have reiterated that their current regime will not be tougher than in the past. However, there have been reports of human rights abuses in various parts of the country.

"It is clear in the Shari'a that those who are unmarried and have sex with a non-mahram, whether it is a boy or a girl, are punishable by 100 lashes in public," he said. But those who are married and have sex with someone else should be stoned to death. In the same way, whoever steals and is found guilty, his hand should be cut off.

During the 1990s, executions were carried out in public at Kabul's sports stadium or on the main Eidgah grounds. In the then Taliban government, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi was the Minister of Justice and the head of the Taliban's religious police.