In another major setback for women in Afghanistan, the Taliban had forbid them from riding domestic or international planes without male chaperone. The Reuters news agency, citing sources, reported that the service for the spread of virtues and prevention of representatives had sent the airline on Saturday which told them about new restrictions.
Women without companions who have ordered tickets will be allowed to travel on Sunday and Monday, added the report. Some women with tickets have been rejected at Kabul Airport on Saturday.
The Taliban, since then reclaimed Afghanistan last year, has imposed restrictions sweeping freedom, most target Afghan girls and women. On Sundays, they ordered local television channels to stop broadcasting BBC news bulletins.
During the weekend, they also decided that men and women could not visit the park in the capital on the same day.
his is not an Islamic Emirate command but the commands of our God that men and women who are foreigners with each other should not gather in one place,” the AFP news agency quoted Mohammad Yahya ARF, an official at the Ministry’s representative who said.
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Taliban said the decision was taken after a closed meeting of the movement leaders last week in Kandahar, the center of the de facto group.
On Monday, the Ministry of Public Morality of Taliban administration patrolled all government offices, examined that employees had planted beards and obeyed the dress code.
According to Reuters, services for the spread of virtues and prevention of representatives instructed all government employees not to shave their beard, to wear local clothes consisting of peaks and long and loose trousers, and hats or turbans.