With the advent of the Islamic Emirate, as the 'de facto' regime of the Taliban is called, "the 'sharia' system was established throughout Afghanistan", declared Akhundzada, in a statement released by the spokesman for the fundamentalist Afghan Government.
"The sacred Islamic 'sharia' is being applied and important measures have been adopted to increase religious practices and expand and strengthen religious centers," said the Taliban supreme leader.
The 'mullah' also praised the work of the 'sharia' courts in promoting "social reform".
"Through the functioning of 'sharia' courts (...), the great duty of ordering good and prohibiting evil is being fulfilled in practice", he highlighted.
With their return to power, in August 2021, the Taliban imposed a strict interpretation of Islamic law, a set of norms and precepts applicable in the religious, moral, legal, economic and political domains.
Executions, flogging and physical punishment are part of the application of Islamic law in Afghanistan.
Since taking power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have executed five people and "punished" another 450, with penalties such as public flogging and imprisonment, according to the Afghan Supreme Court.
The imposition of a strict interpretation of Islamic law by the Taliban led to restrictions on the movement of women, their exclusion from social spaces and the ban on attending higher education.
The interpretation of this non-monolithic legal code is considered one of the strictest in force in the Muslim world.
Akhundzada is an elusive figure who generally communicates through written messages or voice recordings and is rarely seen in public.
He is the third supreme leader of the Taliban, appointed in 2016, after the death of his predecessor, Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, in an attack by American drones (unmanned aircraft) in Pakistan.
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