Can I ask whether you actually have a text of this law in translation? Can you provide it to the committee? I've seen excerpts from it, and I find a little bit unsettling the extreme level of detail that is apparently being given the force of law.
We understand we're dealing with a traditional society, but now we're seeing them codify and put into enforceable law things that may have been part of a tradition but that may not survive modernity. If you codify it and nail it down into law, you seem to be putting in place things that are going to be very difficult to change.
I realize this is not our country, but we do have international human rights standards. It seems to me to be extremely difficult to square the circle when you look at the detail of this and the international legal principles that we expect or hope Afghanistan would follow.