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Published 16:20 26 Aug 2021 BST
He also went on to say that the Taliban will follow up on their promise to let women return to their jobs in the future, so long as they wear a head covering, and denied any notions that the Taliban have or will force women to stay inside or punish those not covering their faces.
Reports of women being killed for not wearing burqas came on the same day as that interview, as well as accounts of women being set on fire for bad cooking.
https://twitter.com/FkHaidari/status/1416480404085817345?s=20 During their previous time in power, Afghan women could only leave the house in a burqa and Mujahid has already said that women should remain inside "until we have a new procedure" in place. The group is yet to form a new government but has already claimed it will no longer rely on opium and will train forces not to harass women. Mujahid said: "We are worried our forces, who are new and have not been yet trained very well, may mistreat women. We don't want our forces, God forbid, to harm or harass women." Additionally, he stated that women's salaries will be paid in their homes, echoing what another one of the group's leaders, Ahmadullah Waseq - the deputy of the Taliban’s cultural affairs committee - told the NY Times previously: that the Taliban has "no problems with working women" as long as they wear hijabs or burqas.
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