Taliban prisons chief says the group will resume executions and amputations as punishment
Mullah Nooruddin Turabi says the world should not interfere, adding: "No one will tell us what our laws should be".
One of the founders of the Taliban has said that the group will resume executions and amputations as punishment.
Mullah
Nooruddin Turabi warned the world against interfering in the plans,
which come just weeks after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan
following the withdrawal of Western troops.
Mr Turabi, who was
chief enforcer of the Taliban's harsh interpretation of Islamic law when
they last ruled the country in the late 1990s, said: "Everyone
criticised us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said
anything about their laws and their punishments.
"No one will tell us what our laws should be.
"We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran."
Previously, convicted murderers were shot in the head by the victim's
family who also had the choice of accepting money and allowing the
offender to live.
Convicted thieves had their hand amputated and highway robbers had a hand and a foot amputate
Mr Turabi told the Associated Press that amputating hands "is very
necessary for security", adding that during the Taliban's previous rule,
such harsh punishments helped bring "complete safety" to the country.
US
State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Friday that the
punishments "would constitute clear gross abuses of human rights".
"We stand firm with the international community to hold perpetrators of these, of any such abuses, accountable," he added.
"We
are watching very closely, and not just listening to the announcements
that come out but watching very closely as the Taliban conducts itself."
