Inside the Kabul safe houses where Afghans wait to be evacuated to Canada Kabul is being rebranded by the Taliban, who want to make sure that nobody can forget who’s in charge now.
The country is no longer a republic, it’s the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.But exactly what that means beyond a change of flag colours has many in Kabul on edge, and planning their escape to countries like Canada.“We are following shariah law here,” Rahman Mansour said, sitting in his office at a Kabul police station, where he was the newly installed Taliban deputy commander.He said the Taliban would enforce existing laws that were in line with shariah, but not those deemed to conflict with it.A Taliban flag sat on his desk, along with his radios and two cell.