Taliban orders magnificence salons in Afghanistan to shut in 1 month

By Reuters: 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 parlours 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 because the Taliban returned to energy in 2021 after defeating a US-backed authorities as overseas forces withdrew.

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Last yr, authorities closed most ladies’ excessive colleges, barred girls from college and stopped many feminine Afghan support employees 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 have been pushed from energy in late 2001, weeks after the Sept. 11 assaults on the United States.

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Many remained open after the Islamists returned to energy two years in the past however with their indicators and home windows lined up, offering some girls with jobs and their clients with their companies.

Western authorities and worldwide organisations have signalled that restrictions on girls are hampering any attainable progress to worldwide recognition for the Taliban administration.

The administration says it respects girls’s rights in accordance with its interpretation of Islamic legislation and Afghan customs.