KABUL — The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has ordered magnificence salons to shut inside a month, the morality ministry mentioned, within the newest shrinking of entry to public locations for Afghan girls.
“The deadline for the closing of beauty parlors for women is one month,” Mohammad Sadiq Akif, a spokesperson for the Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue, mentioned on Tuesday, referring to a ministry discover.
Foreign governments and UN officers have condemned rising restrictions on girls for the reason that Taliban returned to energy in 2021 after defeating a US-backed authorities as international forces withdrew.
Last yr, authorities closed most ladies’ excessive colleges, barred girls from college and stopped many feminine Afghan support workers from working. Many public locations together with bathhouses, gyms and parks have been closed to girls.
Beauty salons sprung up in Kabul and different Afghan cities within the months after the Taliban had been pushed from energy in late 2001, weeks after the Sept. 11 assaults on the United States.
Many remained open after the Taliban returned to energy two years in the past, offering some girls with jobs and their clients with their providers. The salons are normally female-only and have their home windows coated in order that clients can’t be seen from outdoors.
Sahar, a Kabul resident who visited a salon each few weeks to get her hair and nails achieved, mentioned she felt {that a} last avenue for socializing safely outdoors of with household had now been minimize off.
“Parks are not allowed for women so it was a good place for us to meet our friends… it was a good reason to see each other, to meet other women, other girls to talk about issues,” she mentioned, asking that her full title not be printed for safety causes.
“Now I don’t know how to meet them, how to see them, how to talk to each other… I think it will be very impactful for us and women around Afghanistan,” she mentioned.
Western governments and worldwide organizations have signaled that restrictions on girls are hampering any doable progress to worldwide recognition for the Taliban administration.
The administration says it respects girls’s rights in accordance with its interpretation of Islamic regulation and Afghan customs. — Reuters
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