Former Afghan Interior Minister: The Taliban's ideology is no different from that of ISIS
Mr. Jalali on Sunday described the signing of the Taliban's new law on enjoining good as shameful, saying it would practically imprison Afghan women in the country.
He added that the law showed that there was no intellectual difference between ISIS and the Taliban.
Ali Ahmad Jalali, a professor at the US National Defense University, wrote in a message on X that the Taliban's ideology could "turn young people into violent extremists in the region and beyond."
The Taliban's justice ministry recently announced that the group's leader had signed the "Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil" law.
The law is published in the Taliban's official gazette with a preamble, four chapters and 35 articles.
Under the law, it is prohibited to play music, transport women without a mahram and without a veil, and mix women with men in vehicles.
The law also defines women's faces, bodies and voices as "awrat" and criminalizes their appearance in front of "non-mahrams".
The signing of the Taliban's Enjoining Good Law has sparked widespread domestic and international reactions.
Former Afghan Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali says there is no intellectual difference between ISIS and the Taliban.
Farzana Ahmadi
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