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One of the founders of the Taliban movement, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, said in an interview with AP News that they will resume executions and hand amputations as punishment. But that they have not yet decided whether it will happen in public like in the 90s.

At that time, the punishments were carried out in sports arenas in front of hundreds of Afghan men – which was met with fierce international criticism.

"Everyone criticized us for the punishments we used in the arenas, but we never said anything about their laws and punishments. Nobody should tell us what our laws should look like. We will follow Islam and create our own laws according to the Quran," he told AP News.

The source reminded that the Taliban have already resumed a punishment they had used many times in the past – public humiliation for shoplifting. At least twice in the past week, men were loaded onto a pickup truck and shown on the streets of Kabul with their hands tied – once with painted faces, once with stale bread in their mouths hanging around their necks.