Taliban Celebrates Three Years Of Power In Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Taliban has celebrated three years in power with a military parade, paying homage to its homemade bombs, fighter aircraft and goose-stepping security forces.

According to Reuters, the Taliban’s supreme spiritual leader said the group had transformed Afghanistan into an Islamic sharia-based country, as the former insurgents marked three years of rule with a huge military parade at the Bagram Air Base near Kabul.

“The system is Islamic and sharia-based, sharia is being implemented,” said supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, in a speech shared by the administration spokesman late on Wednesday.

“As long as we are alive, we will uphold and apply Allah’s (God’s) faith and sharia upon ourselves and others,” he said.

Taliban forces seized Kabul on August 15, 2021, after the US-backed government collapsed and its leaders fled into exile. The anniversary is marked a day earlier on the Afghan calendar.