Under Article 9 of Taliban’s newly announced criminal code, religious scholars, the mullahs, are largely immune from punishment. At worst, they receive “advice” for offenses. The elite, the Ashraf, may face summons or mild questioning. But for everyone else, the middle and lower classes, the law is unforgiving. For the same offence, the middle class may be jailed, but the lower class is punished twice over, with prison and the whip. Watch this week’s column for ThePrint by Amana Begam Ansari
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