Within the newest motion curbing freedom of girls, Taliban has banned ladies’s magnificence salons in Afghanistan. Taliban has given the companies a month’s discover to wind up.
A spokesperson for the Taliban-run Advantage and Vice Ministry, Mohammad Sidik Akif Mahajar, confirmed the letter circulating on social media, nevertheless, didn’t present additional particulars on the transfer. It’s the newest curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan ladies and women, following edicts barring them from schooling, public areas and most types of employment.
The letter, dated June 24 conveys a verbal order from the supreme chief, Hibatullah Akhundzada. The ban targets the capital, Kabul, and all provinces, and provides salons all through the nation a month’s discover. After that interval, they have to shut and submit a report about their closure. The letter does not give causes for the ban.
Its launch comes days after Akhundzada claimed that his authorities has taken the mandatory steps for the betterment of girls’s lives in Afghanistan.
In accordance with experiences, shutting down magnificence salons have been a part of the big selection of measures imposed by Taliban, after they have been in energy from 1996 to 2001. Nonetheless, the salons have been reopened after 2001, following US-led invasion of Afghanistan. An Afghan girl instructed BBC, “The Taliban are taking away essentially the most fundamental human rights from Afghan ladies. They’re violating ladies’s rights. By this determination, they’re now depriving ladies from serving one other ladies. They’re making an attempt to get rid of ladies at each stage of public life.”
Regardless of preliminary guarantees of a extra average rule than throughout their earlier stint in energy within the Nineteen Nineties, the Taliban have imposed harsh measures since seizing Afghanistan in August 2021 as US and NATO forces have been pulling out.
They’ve barred ladies from public areas, like parks and gymnasiums, and cracked down on media freedoms. The measures have triggered a fierce worldwide uproar, rising the nation’s isolation at a time when its economic system has collapsed and have worsened a humanitarian disaster.
(With PTI inputs.)
