In newest curb on rights and freedoms of Afghan ladies, Taliban bans magnificence salons

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban are banning ladies’s magnificence salons in Afghanistan, a authorities spokesman mentioned Tuesday.

It’s the newest curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan ladies and women, following edicts barring them from training, 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 have 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 mandatory steps for the betterment of ladies’s lives in Afghanistan.

One magnificence salon proprietor mentioned she was her household’s solely breadwinner after her husband died in a 2017 automotive bombing. She didn’t need to be named or point out her salon for worry of reprisals.

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Between eight to 12 ladies go to her Kabul salon day by day, she mentioned.

“Day by day they (the Taliban) are imposing limitations on women,” she informed 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 reasonable 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 had been pulling out.