Taliban To Temporarily Adopt Monarchy Constitution

The Taliban says they will temporarily adopt a 1964 constitution that granted women the right to vote but eliminate any elements they disagree with.<br />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.<br />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.<br />He added that anything in the text found to conflict with Sharia law and the principles of the Islamic Emirate would be discarded.