Afghanistan: Taliban clamp down on girls’s taxi use

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan on Sunday gave new steering to taxi drivers, advising them in opposition to taking fares from girls who don’t comply with a strict Islamic gown code by carrying the hijab, or Islamic scarf.
The Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice additionally instructed drivers they need to not take girls who want to journey greater than 72 kilometers (45 miles) with out a male family member as a chaperone.
Ministry spokesman Mohammad Sadiq Akif confirmed the authenticity of the advisory, which was issued in a pamphlet.
The ministry’s advisory additionally urges drivers, presumably male, to develop lengthy beards and break for prayer. In addition, the pamphlet says they need to chorus from enjoying music, which the Taliban deem to be un-Islamic, of their autos.
Taliban prohibit girls’s rights
Since seizing energy in Afghanistan in August, the Taliban have moved to limit public areas and public life for girls, in addition to ladies’ training. Women haven’t been in a position to return to their jobs for probably the most half, and most secondary faculties for ladies have been shuttered.

In some areas, native Taliban leaders have been persuaded to reopen faculties for ladies, however academic alternatives nonetheless stay overwhelmingly lower off for ladies and younger girls.
Protests by girls who’ve demanded rights have been met with violence by the Taliban.

Last week, the Taliban moved to destroy any remnants of photos displaying girls from public promoting after many had preemptively moved to hide girls’s faces on advertisements.
The Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice grew to become synonymous with egregious abuses the final time the Taliban dominated Afghanistan within the Nineties.
Criticism of the brand new guidelines for girls
Haroun Rahimi, a lecturer at an Afghan college, criticized the Taliban’s orders. He stated taxi drivers had been now being known as upon to police each girls’s our bodies and their mobility.
He added that the decree created alternatives for harassing girls and would make public areas much less safe for them.