On the 4th of July, the Taliban’s morality ministry dictated that each one women-run institutions like hair and wonder salons be shut down inside a month of getting preliminary data, which was handed to them on the 2nd of July.
As per Bloomberg, the Tabilan’s Ministry of Vice and Virtue launched a textual content message to cross on this diktat. In the textual content message, the Ministry acknowledged that “all beauty salons operated by women in Kabul and other provinces should be banned immediately and follow our order”.
Further, the Taliban’s ministry additionally warned these women-run institutions to not violate its order in any other case they must “face legal action”.
Spokesman of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue, Mohammad Sadiq Akif acknowledged that ranging from 2nd July, once they have been initially knowledgeable concerning the determination, companies have been given a one-month deadline to conform.
The Taliban-run administration didn’t give any clarification for banning magnificence parlors. Additionally, they didn’t supply any various choices for ladies as soon as these hair and wonder salons are closed down. However, the Taliban acknowledged that it respects girls’s rights in accordance with its interpretation of Islamic regulation and Afghan customs.
“The Taliban are taking away the most basic human rights from Afghan women. They are violating women’s rights. By this decision, they are now depriving women of serving each other. When I heard the news, I was completely shocked”, mentioned an nameless Afghan lady whereas speaking to BBC.
She added, “It seems the Taliban do not have any political plan other than focusing on women’s bodies. They are trying to eliminate women at every level of public life.”
Restrictions on Afghan Women
This current restriction on girls’s rights is a part of a scientific and broader vary of regressive measures taken by the Taliban for the reason that terror outfit regained management over Afghan soil, two years in the past.
Under the Taliban rule, teenage women and girls have been barred from school rooms, gyms, and parks. Most just lately they have been banned from working for the United Nations.
Further, the Taliban have enforced a strict gown code for ladies. Women in Afghanistan should cowl up and put on a gown in such a means that it solely reveals their eyes. Additionally, girls should be accompanied by their male kinfolk if they’re touring greater than 72 kilometers (48 miles).
According to Bloomberg, girls in Afghanistan can solely work in hospitals as nurses and docs. Currently, that is the final and solely job girls are allowed to carry out below Taliban rule. However, media experiences declare that these rising restrictions have pressured girls to work secretively from residence as lecturers and make-up artists.
From 1996 to 2001, the earlier Taliban regime had additionally imposed sweeping restrictions on Women’s rights and curbed their freedoms. For Afghan girls, the current closure of magnificence parlors reminds them of the darkish occasions below the earlier Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
However, when the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001, magnificence salons reopened and operated usually until the Taliban regained energy two years in the past. Although the Taliban didn’t instantly shut down hair and wonder salons, they requested retailers to cowl and spray-paint their home windows and posters to hide the faces of ladies on them.
The International group has but once more condemned the current order by the Taliban regime. However, the terrorist group has continued to impose these restrictions towards girls’s rights.
