For five times, Naima * presided over cases of violence against women in Afghanistan. She heard harrowing accounts of inenarrable violence from battered women and their families. She indeed saw a man kill his woman before her own eyes during a court hail.
But in the two months since the Taliban preemption of Afghanistan, she says she regrets the 10 times she spent as a judge and the times she took to study law.
“ Occasionally you suppose to yourself Why did I do that? Why did n’t I choose any other discipline,” she told Al Jazeera from an undisclosed position in capital Kabul.
Like hundreds of other judges, Naima went into hiding shortly after former President Ashraf Ghani fled the country on August 15 and the Taliban took control.
The judges had reasons to be hysterical.
During its 11- day rage through Afghanistan’s 34 businesses, the Taliban released thousands of captures from the nation’s jails. Among them were conceivably men who judges similar as Naima had tête-à-tête doomed, and who might have ended up joining the Taliban government.
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In fact, Taliban leaders themselves have made several consequences to felonious rudiments posing as them or joining their species with ill intent.
Last month, acting Minister of Defence, Mullah Muhammad Yaqoob, specifically addressed these enterprises in an audio communication, saying “ There are some bad and loose people who want to join us … To fulfil their own interest or to defame us and make us look bad.”
Naima says her reservations were verified when she went to a bank last month and one of the guards, easily a member of the Taliban, kept gaping at her. Effects only came more tense when one of the bank workers called out her name and the guard tried to take her bank card, presumably to corroborate her name.
Naima snappily pushed her way into the middle of the crowd of dozens of other women staying for their turn, but just before she did that, she managed to catch a quick regard of the guard who had been trying hard to watch her.
It all came back to me in a flash, he’d been in my courtroom only eight months previous for boggling his woman,” she said.
‘ Go back!’
Naima’s story isn’t uncommon. Other womanish judges Al Jazeera spoke to participated strikingly analogous stories. Like Naima, all of them are in hiding in Kabul.
Incontinently after the Taliban preemption, knockouts of thousands of civil retainers were out of jobs across Afghanistan. The group took weeks to establish its interim government, including any form of bar.
It has also failed in recovering access to further than$9.5 bn in means and loans being blocked by the United States, World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which means the Taliban is largely unfit to pay hires to government workers, including judges.