Afghanistan has no government at the moment. The situation in Kabul has been changing every moment since the Taliban captured it. Sporadic incidents were reported earlier which were controlled peacefully, according to some Taliban leaders. The whole country and its people are in uncertainty as there is no proper government or administration. Thousands of people have already fled the country fearing something horrific. However, it is too early to predict about the future of Kabul as today’s Taliban is totally changed than the previous one.
Taliban could not come to a conclusion over the policy and forming government as the different sect and tribe have too many agendas. The Taliban has declared an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government, trying to calm nerves across a tense capital city that only the day before saw chaos at its airport as thousands mobbed the city’s international airport in a desperate attempt to flee.
The Taliban Tuesday declared a general amnesty for all government officials and urged them to return to work, two days after taking power following a lightning sweep through the country, according to AFP.
"A general amnesty has been declared for all... so you should start your routine life with full confidence," said a statement from the Taliban.
Recently, television footage showed fighters in the presidential palace claiming victory. President Ashraf Ghani has already left the country. Chaotic evacuations continue at Kabul airport. Germany has closed its embassy in Kabul, flying staff out. US has evacuated its embassy staff. All these incidents created panic among the people of Afghanistan. The future attempts and actions of Taliban and common people of the country are full of uncertainty.
Gone are Western clothes favoured by the fashion-conscious in the Afghan capital, with men on the streets now wearing traditional shalwar kameez. And there are hardly any women to be seen on Tuesday.
According to another report of AFP, a Taliban spokesman has promised that journalists will not be persecuted in Afghanistan and that women will be allowed to continue working in the media, campaign group RSF said in a statement on Tuesday.
RSF, a Paris-based media freedom organisation, said the assurances were given by Zabihullah Mujahid in a conversation on Sunday as the extremist group was taking over the capital Kabul.
"We will respect freedom of the press, because media reporting will be useful to society and will be able to help correct the leaders' errors," Mujahid was quoted as saying. "Through this statement to RSF, we declare to the world that we recognise the importance of the role of the media."
He added: "Journalists working for state or privately-owned media are not criminals and none of them will be prosecuted. In our view, these journalists are civilians and moreover, are talented young people who constitute our richness."
Under the first period of Taliban rule in Afghanistan from 1996-2001, all media was banned except for the Voice of Sharia radio station "which broadcast nothing but propaganda and religious programmes," RSF recalled in its statement.
The group said "only time will tell" if the statement should be taken seriously and it pointed to around 100 media outlets having stopped operating since the Taliban's rapid advance in the country.
