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Taliban to Implement Monarch-era Constitution in Afghanistan


Tue 28 Sep 2021 | 07:44 PM
Ahmad El-Assasy

The Taliban's acting justice minister promised on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic's Constitution would be replaced with 20th-century monarchy-era legislation, according to AA.

According to a statement on the Justice Ministry's Facebook page, Abdul Hakim Sharaey made the news at a meeting with China's Ambassador to Kabul, Wang Yu.

The statement added: “The Islamic Emirate (Afghanistan under Taliban rule) will implement the constitutional law of the former King Mohammad Zahir Shah for a temporary period without any content that contradicts Islamic law and the principles of the Islamic Emirate."

Sharaey further stated that the outfit would follow laws and international treaties that are not against Islam and the Taliban government, as well as ideals.

According to the report, the Chinese diplomat assured the Taliban leader that Beijing wanted to maintain diplomatic relations with the group and assist in the lifting of sanctions, and that Sharaey stressed during the meeting that the group wants to establish “good and friendly” relations with the rest of the world.

Before the country adopted a new Constitution in 2004, the interim administration re-enacted the 1964 Shah-era Constitution following the fall of the Taliban's first regime in 2001.

The Taliban had no constitution under its first government, which lasted from 1996 to 2001, and instead ruled through Sharia-based decrees.

It is worth noting that Former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani said Monday his Facebook account was hacked when it posted a message telling people to accept the Taliban rule.

A post was shared on Ghani’s verified Facebook page at 12:15 p.m. Afghanistan time on Monday, which said the world should engage with the Taliban government.

“The international community should interact with the current government instead of alienating the Afghan people,” it said.

“The world must understand that if Afghanistan wants a prosperous and secure Afghanistan, it must extend a hand of friendship. It cannot be influenced by hostility as it has experienced in the last twenty years.”

However, 30 minutes after the Facebook post was published, Ghani’s verified Twitter account said his Facebook account had been hacked, noting that anything published from Sunday onwards was “no longer valid.”

The former president had fled Afghanistan for the UAE on August 15, the day the Taliban took control over Kabul, claiming that he did it to try and avoid bloodshed.

“Leaving Kabul was the most difficult decision of my life, but I believed it was the only way to keep the guns silent and save Kabul and her 6 million citizens,” he clarified.