Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban has barred girls and women from education, banned them from parks, funfairs and gyms.
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have ordered beauty parlours across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed Tuesday, the latest curb to further squeeze women out of public life.
Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban government has barred girls and women from high schools and universities, banned them from parks, funfairs and gyms, and ordered them to cover up in public.
Akhundzada, who rarely appears in public and rules by decree from the Taliban’s birthplace in Kandahar, said in a statement marking the Eid al-Adha holiday that steps had been taken to provide women with a “comfortable and prosperous life according to Islamic Sharia”.
