{"id":6316,"date":"2021-09-24T09:12:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T09:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=6316"},"modified":"2021-09-24T09:12:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T09:12:37","slug":"yaqub-calls-for-strict-adherence-to-the-amnesty-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/09\/yaqub-calls-for-strict-adherence-to-the-amnesty-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaqub calls for strict adherence to the amnesty scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Taliban&#8217;s designated defense minister, Mohammad Yaqub, son of the group&#8217;s founding leader, Mullah Umer, has warned his associates against taking revenge from the former foes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an audio message, Yaqub has stressed upon peddling the policy of general amnesty declared by the group upon seizing power in Kabul last month.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Yaqub, acting head of the Ministry of Defense in the Islamic Emirate&#8217;s cabinet, warned Taliban forces that the amnesty covered all dissidents and that no one had the right to threaten or kill dissidents.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Yaqub said in the audio message that he had heard that Taliban forces had killed people in some places due to hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>Hardly seen in public, Yaqub said: &#8220;Those who have fought the Taliban in the past have been pardoned and no one has the right to kill anyone for opposing the Taliban. Violators of the amnesty decree will be dealt with severely\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Taliban, Mohammad Yaqub said that &#8220;any threat or killing of individuals is against the goals of the Islamic Emirate.&#8221; He added that personal disputes between Taliban forces and anyone, if any, should be resolved through the courts of the Islamic Emirate.<\/p>\n<p>However, since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, there have been reports of human rights abuses and personal vendetta by Taliban forces. For example, videos have been broadcast from Panjshir showing Taliban forces conducting a field trial. In addition, international organizations have accused the Taliban of human rights abuses, killings and torture.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Taliban&#8217;s designated defense minister, Mohammad Yaqub, son of the group&#8217;s founding leader, Mullah Umer, has warned his associates against taking revenge from the former foes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,200,5,8,4,7],"tags":[12,13,208],"class_list":["post-6316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-democracy-human-rights","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-human-rights"],"views":539,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}