For all of the purported strides that the war in Afghanistan has supposedly made for "human rights," it seems that the new regime has simply implemented the old ways all over again.

According to Al-Jazeera America, Afghani officials have proposed bringing back the process of "stoning adulterers"...a practice which hasn't been legal since the Taliban era. Mohammad Ashraf Azimi, head of the Justice Ministry's punishment laws department, confirmed that stoning was part of the draft. The draft provisions state that the "implementation of stoning shall take place in public in a predetermined location," according to Al-Jazeera.

But according to the Huffington Post, this new proposal is drawing a lot of ire from human rights groups. Over the weekend, two lovers barely escaped stoning in Kabul, but were shot instead. "Adultery" under the penal code doesn't just entail a married person cheating on his/her spouse -- it can entail two single people who engage in sex without marriage. "It is absolutely shocking that 12 years after the fall of the Taliban government, the Karzai administration might bring back stoning as a punishment," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. The U.S. based rights group has urged funding to be tied to commitments and last month, Norway took the rare step of cutting aid on the grounds that Afghanistan had failed to meet commitments to protect women's rights and fight corruption.

What are your thoughts on this new law...and the war in Afghanistan as a whole? Did it accomplish anything? Do you think we should just mind our own business when it comes to these laws? Tell us in the comments below.