Taliban ban women from consuming locations and inexperienced areas in Afghanistan’s Herat

The Taliban administration has prohibited households and women from consuming locations with gardens and inexperienced areas, paying homage to parks, the place ladies and men may meet.

Kabul,UPDATED: Apr 11, 2023 09:56 IST

A view of a restaurant closed by the Taliban in Herat province, western Afghanistan on Monday. The Taliban have banned households and women from consuming locations with gardens or inexperienced areas in Herat, an official acknowledged. The strikes adopted complaints from non secular college students and members of most people about mixing of genders in such areas, he acknowledged. (Photo: AP)

By India Today World Desk: The Taliban have prohibited the entry of households and women into consuming locations with gardens or inexperienced areas inside the northwestern province of Herat in Afghanistan. This comes even as a result of the group, which bought right here into vitality in August 2021, continues to impose curbs on women under its rule.

The latest switch is a outcomes of quite a lot of complaints from non secular college students and most people regarding the mixing of genders in such areas, in accordance with an official. The outside consuming ban is simply related to establishments in Herat, the place such premises are open for males. The curbs are in place as women won’t be carrying the hijab (Islamic headband) accurately, in accordance with authorities.

Not all consuming locations have been barred for households and women, acknowledged Baz Mohammad Nazir, a deputy official from the Ministry of Vice and Virtue’s directorate in Herat, whereas denying media tales of the equivalent and calling them “propaganda”, in accordance with an Associated Press report.

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The official acknowledged the ban was restricted solely to consuming locations with inexperienced areas, paying homage to parks, the place ladies and men may meet. “After repeated complaints from scholars and ordinary people, we set limits and closed these restaurants,” he acknowledged.

Azizurrahman Al Muhajir, who’s head of the Vice and Virtue directorate in Herat, acknowledged, “It was like a park but they named it a restaurant and men and women were together. Thank God it has been corrected now. Also, our auditors are observing all the parks where men and women go.”

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Furthermore, Nazir moreover denied tales that DVD product sales of abroad movies, music and television reveals have been banned in Herat. He claimed that shopkeepers have been instructed to not promote such supplies as a result of it contradicted Islamic values, the Associated Press report acknowledged.

Nazir acknowledged these shopkeepers who did not observe the foundations observed their retailers shut. He moreover denied tales that internet cafes have been closed down in Herat. He clarified that youngsters have been barred from gaming arcades on account of unsuitable content material materials.

Just just a few video video games insulted the Kaaba, the cube-shaped development in Mecca’s Great Mosque within the path of which Muslims flip when offering their prayers and totally different Islamic symbols.

“Internet cafes, where students learn and use for their studies, are necessary and we have allowed them,” Nazir extra acknowledged.

The Taliban, which seized vitality after US-led forces withdrew from Afghanistan after 20 years of battle, has tightened controls over the freedom of girls. Girls previous sixth grade and women have been barred from coming into lecture rooms and universities respectively.

Women are moreover banned from taking on job alternate options, along with these on the United Nations. They are moreover not allowed to go to public areas paying homage to gyms and parks.

Edited By:

Prateek Chakraborty

Published On:

Apr 11, 2023