ECHOES OF THE TALIBAN: VICE SQUADS

Vice squad flexes its muscles

A billboard advertises the Super Afghan Gym in Kabul. In the southeastern city of Khost a government unit has torn down posters of bodybuilders and arrested people for selling alcohol and pornography. The team is said to be similar to the Vice and Virtue Department of the Taleban, which enforced the regime’s austere moral code. Meanwhile, more than 30 insurgents were killed by Afghan forces in the Garmser district of Helmand province, police said yesterday. (AFP)


Pertinent Links:

1) Vice squad flexes its muscles

2) Afghan Constitution

Chapter I The State

Article 1 [Islamic Republic]Afghanistan is an Islamic Republic, independent, unitary and indivisible state.

Article 2 [Religions]
(1) The religion of the state of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is the sacred religion of Islam.(2) Followers of other religions are free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provisions of law.

Article 3 [Law and Religion]In Afghanistan, no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam.

Article 4 [Sovereignty, Ethnic Groups, Citizenship]
(1) National sovereignty in Afghanistan belongs to the nation that exercises it directly or through its representatives.
(2) The nation of Afghanistan consists of all individuals who are the citizen of Afghanistan.
(3) The nation of Afghanistan is comprised of the following ethnic groups: Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbak, Turkman, Baluch, Pashai, Nuristani, Aymaq, Arab, Qirghiz, Qizilbash, Gujur, Brahwui and others.
(4) The word Afghan applies to every citizen of Afghanistan.
(5) No member of the nation can be deprived of his citizenship of Afghanistan.
(6) Affairs related to the citizenship and asylum are regulated by law.

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