The Taliban are Saudis without money.
This is a systematic punishment in Saudi, but videos of that never make it to the media, so the world behaves like it does not happen and the Saudi king in invited to the G20 meeting in London.
Just read this old headline, you would think there is a mistake in it because it does not make sense to any descent human being.
Saudi king pardons rape victim
These are the spiritual fathers of the Taliban.