As 'Taliban 2.0' joins competing peace talks with various stakeholders, archival photos paint a stark image of life in Afghanistan under the radical Islamic group's 1996-2001 rule.
Afghanistan Under The Taliban
- By RFE/RL
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Music and movies were banned by the Taliban. This pole in Kabul is strung with tape stripped from destroyed cassettes.
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A boy peers at frames from a movie reel he snatched from a bonfire after the Taliban publicly burned movie-screening materials.
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Taliban enforcers pop beer cans under a Soviet tank in Kabul. Alcohol was also strictly forbidden. Punishments for offenders against the Taliban's Shari'a edicts were often gruesome, and public.
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Shirin Khan executes a man who had reportedly killed Khan's son in the town of Khost after a decree handed down by a Shari'a court in 1998.
