Bayan News – Local sources in Kandahar province say that Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban leader, has refrained from meeting with Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
Sources told the media on Monday (August 26) that the UNAMA chief had traveled to Kandahar in southern Afghanistan to discuss the Virtue and Vice Law with the Taliban leader.
According to the sources, Haji Mullah, the Taliban’s deputy governor in Kandahar, has spoken with the UNAMA chief on behalf of their leader.
Based on the reports, Otunbayeva has asked the Taliban in this meeting to reconsider the enacted Virtue and Vice Law.
Haji Mullah has emphasized to the UNAMA chief that this law has been prepared within the “framework of Sharia” and is “unchangeable.”
However, the Taliban governor’s media office in Kandahar has confirmed Otunbayeva’s meeting with the deputy governor of the province and stated that the two sides discussed the replacement of poppy cultivation.
The Taliban leader last week approved the group’s Virtue and Vice Law.
The enactment of this law has faced widespread domestic and international reactions.
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