Taliban Posters Across Kandahar For Women Without Hijab

New Delhi: Concentrating on girls for not sporting an Islamic hijab that absolutely covers their our bodies, the Taliban have put up posters throughout the southern Afghan metropolis of Kandahar saying they’re “attempting to appear like animals”, in response to an official, reported information company AFP. Since Taliban got here to energy in August final yr and ousted the earlier regime, the extremist group imposed a number of restrictions on Afghan girls.

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Lately, the nation’s supreme chief and Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada handed a diktat stressing girls ought to typically keep at residence and have to cowl themselves fully, together with their faces in the event that they enterprise out in public. To this extent, the Taliban’s Ministry for Promotion of Advantage and Prevention of Vice, which overlooks the group’s strict interpretation of Islam, has positioned posters throughout Kandahar metropolis exhibiting pictures of burqas, a kind of garment that covers a lady’s physique from head to toe.

“Muslim girls who don’t put on the hijab try to appear like animals”, mentions the posters, which have come up in lots of cafes and outlets in addition to on promoting hoardings throughout Kandahar, the facility centre of the Taliban.

Sporting brief, tight and clear garments was additionally towards Hibatullah Akhundzada, Islamic cleric’s decree, added the posters.

“We now have put up these posters and people girls whose faces usually are not coated (in public) we are going to inform their households and take steps in response to the decree,” Abdul Rahman Tayebi, head of the ministry in Kandahar advised AFP.

The authorities have been requested to warn and even droop from authorities jobs male kin of girls who don’t adjust to the decree handed by Akhundzada.

In the meantime, the United Nations rights chief Michelle Bachelet got here down closely upon the hardline Islamist authorities for its “institutionalised systematic oppression” of girls. “Their scenario is important,” she stated. Taliban had earlier promised to implement softer model of their earlier harsh system of governance which was in place from 1996 to 2001.

Nevertheless, since coming again to energy many restrictions have been imposed on girls. 1000’s of ladies have been stopped from attending secondary faculties, whereas girls have been barred from taking on authorities jobs.They’re additionally banned from travelling alone and might solely go to public parks within the capital on days when males usually are not allowed.