«We guarantee their security,» Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said during a news conference in the capital city Kabul on Tuesday.
The Taliban urged the tens of thousands of Afghans seeking to flee Afghanistan to stay in the country, promising to guarantee their safety. «We guarantee their security,» Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said during a news conference in the capital city Kabul on Tuesday, Reuters reported. He also called on the U.S. not to encourage Afghan people to leave. Following the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan earlier in August, many Afghan citizens have fled to the airport seeking to evacuate, fearing a return to the brutal rule the group enforced while in power from 1996 to 2001. Mujahid said the group was trying to create a plan to allow women to return work and that there is no list of people targeted for reprisals. He said the group has «forgotten everything in the past,» Reuters reported. However, United Nations Human Rights Council Chief Michelle Bachelet said her office has received «harrowing and credible» reports of human rights violations in areas under Taliban control including executions, restrictions on freedoms for women and girls, recruitment of child soldiers and repression of peaceful protests, Newsweek previously reported.
