Afghanistan: Taliban Dissolves Human Rights Commission, Deeming It 'Unnecessary'

It was – among other departments – deemed unnecessary due to the financial crisis that the country is facing.

Taliban government’s deputy spokesperson Innamullah Samangani. 

(Photo courtesy: Twitter/@HabibiSamangani)

The Taliban government in Afghanistan dissolved five key departments of what used to be part of the Ashraf Ghani administration, including the human rights commission of the country, Reuters reported on Tuesday, 17 May.

They were reportedly deemed unnecessary due to the financial crisis that the country is facing.

"Because these departments were not deemed necessary and were not included in the budget, they have been dissolved," the Taliban government's deputy spokesperson Innamullah Samangani was quoted as saying.

He also said that its first annual national budget was "based on objective facts" and intended to keep only those departments that had been active and productive, according to The Guardian.

Abdallah al Dardari, the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said in November last year that the world had to aid the country's banking sector in order to "improve Afghanistan's limited production capacity and prevent the banking system from collapsing."

"Afghanistan's financial and bank payment systems are in disarray. The bank-run problem must be resolved quickly to improve Afghanistan's limited production capacity and prevent the banking system from collapsing," the UNDP report read.

The Taliban took over the country in August last year after the US decided to pull out its troops.

(With inputs from Reuters and The Guardian.)