Inisde The Intercontinental Hotel, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel

It appears that practices toward the officials of the former government are inconsistent, with the amnesty being implemented in some cases and not others. The Taliban initially enacted policies on media, gender, and other matters that were somewhat less repressive than under their previous regime. These resulted in part from policy changes by the Taliban but also from two decades of transformation of Afghan society, which could no longer be controlled in the same way as before.