Islamabad (Hindustan Times). The Taliban government in Afghanistan has imposed yet another ban on women, banning them from visiting a national park. The Taliban will use security forces to enforce this decree.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Vice and Virtue said women were not following the correct way of wearing the hijab, or Islamic headscarf, when visiting Bandh-e-Amir in the country’s central Bamiyan province.
The report said that a week ago, Minister Mohammad Khalid Hanafi visited the province and told officials and religious clerics that women were not following the correct way of wearing the hijab, which led them to ask security personnel to escort women to tourist sites. Told to stop going.
Ministry spokesman Maulvi Mohammad Sadiq Akif shared a report of Hanafi’s comments late on Saturday. According to Akif’s report, a recording of the minister’s speech in Bamiyan was shared on social media.
Subsequently, Heather Barr, associate women’s rights director at Human Rights Watch, said in an emailed statement, “Not content with denying girls and women access to education, employment and free movement, the Taliban want to take away parks and sports and now nature. Slowly the walls are closing for women as every house is becoming a prison.
Earlier, the Taliban-led government had banned women from using public places including parks. Then the reason was given for not wearing the hijab properly and not following the rules of separation from men.
