Report says the Taliban remains broadly consistent in its restrictive approach to women’s rights
Reuters
May 04, 2021
Afghan women sit next to a grave yard near the Karte Sakhi shrine after an attack by gunmen inside the Karte Sakhi shrine in Kabul on October 12, 2016. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
The Taliban “would roll back much” of the progress made in Afghan women’s rights if the extremists regain national power, according to an assessment released on Tuesday by top US intelligence analysts.
The US National Intelligence Council report likely will reinforce fears that the Taliban will resume the harsh treatment that women and girls suffered under their 1996-2001 rule should the insurgents prevail in a full-blown civil war.
A new intelligence report says U.S. rights will be threatened after U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan.
The Taliban’s “progress in the rights of women in Afghanistan” would “go back a lot” if the fighting group regained national power, according to an assessment released by leading U.S. intelligence analysts on Tuesday.
A report by the U.S. National Intelligence Council will reinforce the Taliban’s fear of resuming the harsh treatment suffered by women and girls under the 1996-2001 rule if the group is likely to dominate. Civil War.
“The Taliban remain consistent in their restrictive view of women’s rights and many of the advances of the last two decades would be returned if the group regains national power,” said the main analytical body of the U.S. intelligence community.
The Taliban “would roll back much” of the progress made in Afghan women’s rights if the fighting group regain national power, according to an assessment released on Tuesday by top US intelligence analysts.
The US National Intelligence Council report will likely reinforce fears that the Taliban will resume the harsh treatment that women and girls suffered under their 1996-2001 rule should the group prevail in a full-blown civil war.
“The Taliban remains broadly consistent in its restrictive approach to women’s rights and would roll back much of the past two decades of progress if the group regains national power,” said the US intelligence community’s top analytical body.
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Intelligence is all about deciphering what lies ahead – analysis of what happened in the past and a capacity to determine what entails for the future in the goings-on of the presen
DC Pathak (The writer is a former Director Intelligence Bureau)
Intelligence is all about deciphering what lies ahead – analysis of what happened in the past and a capacity to determine what entails for the future in the goings-on of the present, certainly help but Einstein s famous dictum imagination is more important than knowledge also speaks of the relevance of the versatility of the human mind that could see beyond what the facts presented to the analyst meant and thus enrich the assessment. All of this seems to have guided the US National Intelligence Council s 20-year forecast of where the world would be, published recently.