Mr Azhar Shaik
The Notion of Gender Justice and the Resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan
Azhar Shaik is a Post Graduate Scholar in the Department of Politics and International Studies, Pondicherry University, India. He has been working on understanding terrorism and its consequences.
The Notion of Gender Justice and the Resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan
Gender in Islam has been interpreted in various ways by the Taliban, a terrorist organization now ruling in Afghanistan. This paper considers how the Taliban and Islam view gender and how different interpretations have deprived women and children of their basic rights. The paper will compare ideas of gender justice in Afghanistan before the Taliban came to power and after it fell and rose again, and the current state of gender justice in Afghanistan.