Women should sit at home, we’ll pay them: Taliban leader Stanikzai’s 1996 interview a grim throwback

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who is the head of the Taliban political office, had said in an interview during the previous Taliban regime that the women will have to sit at home and they will be paid accordingly.

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who is the head of the Taliban political office, had said in an interview during the previous Taliban regime that the women will have to sit at home and they will be paid accordingly. “About those women, we have already decided they should be sitting in their home and they will be paid at their home.” Sound familiar? That’s what Taliban official Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai told me 25 years ago. It’s now come full circle. pic.twitter.com/T04PkH2Zyo A video from a CNN interview in 1996 was shared by a journalist who remembered how Stanikzai made the same promises of allowing women’s education and upliftment, but also talking about making them sit at home.