HE Taliban government announced the ban on women’s beauty salons. Afghanistan In the latest in a series of restrictions based on a strict interpretation of Islamic law, it gave a one-month deadline to shut down all businesses operating in the country.
“The Ministry has sent a letter to the municipalities to revoke the licenses of beauty salons,” Mohammad Sadiq Akif Mahajir, spokesman for the Ministry for the Promotion and Prevention of Virtue, told EFE on Tuesday.
In the letter, the omnipotent fundamentalist ministry instructed authorities in Kabul and other Afghan provinces to end activities at beauty centers for women during this month, and they will be “banned” in the country after the deadline has passed.
The measure was carried out by the order of Mullah Mevlevi Haibatullah Akhundzade, the religious leader of the Taliban.
This veto, which has been added to the list of bans imposed on Afghans since the Taliban came to power in August 2021, also means: a huge loss of several sources of income.
A makeup artist at a beauty center in Kabul told EFE, “Thousands of women-led families will lose their sources of income. It’s really hard for us to survive and it’s kind of torture for us.”
Since the fundamentalists came to power a year and a half ago, women have suffered a setback in their rights, with restrictions such as gender discrimination in public spaces, the imposition of the headscarf or the requirement to be with a male relative. on long trips
This list of cuts was included last December Prohibition of working in NGOs and studying at universityAn order that follows the ban on women’s secondary education since the Taliban came to power.
The reality Afghans live in today is more and more similar to the time of the first regime between 1996 and 2001.Based on a strict interpretation of Islam and its strict social rules known as the Pashtunwali, they banned women from going to schools and confined women to their homes.
Behind many of these regulations for women is the omnipotent Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Depravity, which came into force during the first Taliban regime and was destroyed by the US occupation and left the country. It’s a bad memory for Afghans for the next 20 years.
With the Taliban’s return to power almost two years ago, the institution returned and settled exactly in the now-defunct Ministry of Women.