The Taliban - a fundamentalist Islamist militia - was founded in 1994. From 1996 to 2001, it held power over roughly 66% of Afghanistan, where it enforced a strict version of Sharia law.
The owner of the house, however, agreed that only the hand will be chopped off.' 'Then I asked the owner of the ring whether he also demanded that the thief’s leg be chopped off – since not only did he steal the ring, but he also broke into the house. The punishment that I imposed was to chop off his hand. 'One man broke into a house,' he explained. Elsewhere in the interview, the 38-year-old said women would only be allowed to leave their home with permission, before detailing a recent case he presided over.
