Taliban ban beauty salons for women in Afghanistan – National | 24CA News
The Taliban are banning girls’s magnificence salons in Afghanistan, a authorities spokesman mentioned Tuesday.
It’s the most recent curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan girls and ladies, following edicts barring them from schooling, public areas and most types of employment.
A spokesman for the Taliban-run Virtue and Vice Ministry, Mohammad Sidik Akif Mahajar, didn’t give particulars of the ban. He solely confirmed the contents of a letter circulating on social media.
The ministry-issued letter, dated June 24, says it conveys a verbal order from the supreme chief, Hibatullah Akhundzada. The ban targets the capital, Kabul, and all provinces, and offers salons all through the nation a month’s discover to wind down their companies. After that interval, they need to shut and submit a report about their closure. The letter doesn’t give causes for the ban.
Its launch comes days after Akhundzada claimed that his authorities has taken the required steps for the betterment of girls’s lives in Afghanistan.
One magnificence salon proprietor mentioned she was her household’s solely breadwinner after her husband died in a 2017 automobile bombing. She didn’t wish to be named or point out her salon for worry of reprisals.
Between eight to 12 girls go to her Kabul salon day-after-day, she mentioned.
“Day by day they (the Taliban) are imposing limitations on women,” she instructed The Associated Press. “Why are they only targeting women? Aren’t we human? Don’t we have the right to work or live?”
Despite preliminary guarantees of a extra average rule than throughout their earlier stint in energy within the Nineties, the Taliban have imposed harsh measures since seizing Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces have been pulling out.
They have barred girls from public areas, like parks and gymnasiums, and cracked down on media freedoms. The measures have triggered a fierce worldwide uproar, growing the nation’s isolation at a time when its financial system has collapsed _ and have worsened a humanitarian disaster.
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