The interim mayor of Afghanistan’s capital says many feminine metropolis staff have been ordered to remain house by the nation’s new Taliban rulers.
Hamdullah Namony informed reporters Sunday that solely ladies who couldn’t get replaced by males have been permitted to report back to work. He says this consists of expert employees within the design and engineering departments in addition to feminine attendants of public bogs for ladies.
Namony’s feedback had been one other signal that the Taliban are imposing their harsh interpretation of Islam, together with restrictions on ladies in public life, regardless of their preliminary guarantees of tolerance and inclusion. In their earlier rule within the Nineties, the Taliban had barred women and girls from colleges and jobs.
The mayor says a last resolution about feminine staff in Kabul municipal departments remains to be pending, and that they might draw their salaries within the meantime.
He says that earlier than the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan final month, slightly below one-third of shut to three,000 metropolis staff had been ladies who labored in all departments.
