The Afghan authorities have also ordered a ban on women working in malls, APA reports citing Al-Arabiya.
The Taliban is set to close women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan in the next 10 days.
The Afghan authorities have also ordered a ban on women working in malls, APA reports citing Al-Arabiya.
According to local media, the Vice and Virtue Agents of the Taliban in Baghlan had told landowners and dealers to stop renting out space to women’s hair salons in addition to closing down those businesses, Minute Mirror reports.
Promoters of vice and virtue for the Taliban in Baghlan referred to women’s hair salons as seditious and contrary to Sharia norms.
According to further sources, the proprietors of Baghlan’s markets and shops pressed the Taliban for a 10-day deadline.
However, women’s hair salons in the provinces of Kunduz, Takhar, and Badakhshan had previously been shut down by the Taliban.
Earlier, the Taliban ordered all local and international non-governmental organisations in Afghanistan to suspend the work of female employees.
Afghan media have also reported that the Ministry of Higher Education in the Taliban government has ordered the suspension of female students from private and public universities in Afghanistan. The Minister of Higher Education of Afghanistan said that the education of girls in secular universities violates the laws of Islam and is contrary to Islamic traditions.
Lamenting the silence that has greeted the recent attacks on Afghan women by the international community, Shabnam Nasimi, former Policy Advisor to Minister for Afghan Resettlement & Minister for Refugees, tweeted on Tuesday, “Taliban have reportedly ordered all female beauty salons in a number of provinces across Afghanistan to CLOSE their business. They have also sent letters to landlords & told them not to rent to women.
“Yet the shameful silence on the Taliban’s war on women continues.”