Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid held a news conference to say that the insurgents would honor women’s rights, within highly restrictive Sharia law. The militants urged women to return to school and work, and another Taliban spokesman granted a televised interview to a female journalist. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said rights will be afforded to women within Islamic law when he spoke during a press conference on August 17, 2021. A woman lies in a pool of blood as her parents and others crouch around her, moments after she was shot by the Taliban. “There was kids, women, babies, old women, they could barely walk,” an Afghan former State Department contractor told Fox.
