Jamiat‑e Islami Afghanistan, responding to the approval of the Taliban`s "Penal Code of Taliban Courts," says the document "demonstrates the Taliban`s intensified and deliberate effort to institutionalize systematic discrimination and authoritarianism in Afghanistan...

Jamiat-e-Islami, led by Salahuddin Rabbani, said on Wednesday it had withdrawn from the National Resistance Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan, a day after three major political movements announced what they described as a unified political voice...