Africa Business Radio

The Taliban says they will temporarily adopt a 1964 constitution that granted women the right to vote but eliminate any elements they disagree with.The Taliban’s acting justice minister issued a statement saying the Islamists planned to introduce a constitution used during Afghanistan’s short-lived golden age of democracy, but only briefly and with amendments.Mawlavi Abdul Hakim Sharaee says the Islamic Emirate will adopt the constitution of the former King Mohammad Zahir Shah’s time for a temporary period.He added that anything in the text found to conflict with Sharia law and the principles of the Islamic Emirate would be discarded.