Afghanistan: Taliban bans girls visiting widespread nationwide park

The Taliban has banned girls from visiting a well-liked nationwide park in Afghanistan.

Security forces can be used to cease girls going to the famend Band-e-Amir National Park within the Bamiyan province, in accordance its all-male vice and advantage ministry.

Minister Mohammad Khalid Hanafi stated girls had not been following the right means of carrying the hijab within the park after he had visited the area.

Mr Hanafi notified officers and non secular clerics of this alleged infraction, including that “going sightseeing is not a must for women”.

The prohibition provides to an inventory of restrictive measures imposed upon girls and ladies for the reason that Taliban returned to energy in August 2021, 20 years after it was toppled by US forces.

Last November, the Taliban-led authorities barred girls from utilizing public areas, together with parks, citing hijab violations or apparently not following gender segregation guidelines.

Girls have additionally been prevented from pursuing additional training, together with college, with Afghanistan the one nation on the planet to ban them from attending secondary college.

More just lately, Afghan feminine college students have been forbidden from learning overseas, in response to a boss of a bunch providing them scholarships within the United Arab Emirates.

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The Taliban has intervened in Afghan girls’s careers, barring them from jobs at native and non-governmental organisations.

The fundamentalist group has repeatedly quashed protests from girls who’ve demanded their freedoms.

‘Walls closing in on girls’

A human rights chief has closely criticised the Taliban’s most up-to-date measure, saying that each residence was changing into “a prison”.

Heather Barr, affiliate girls’s rights director at Human Rights Watch, stated: “Not content with depriving girls and women of education, employment, and free movement, the Taliban also want to take from them parks and sport and now even nature, as we see from this latest ban on women visiting Band-e-Amir.

“Step by step the partitions are closing in on girls as each residence turns into a jail.”

The regressive insurance policies sparked widespread condemnation, together with Muslim-majority nations.

Turkey had known as the college ban “neither Islamic nor humane”, whereas Saudi Arabia – which till 2019 had imposed a number of restrictions on girls – expressed “astonishment and regret” at Afghan girls being denied a college training.

Band-e-Amir is famous for its deep blue lakes, changing into Afghanistan’s first nationwide park in 2009 and pulls in hundreds of holiday makers yearly.