Taliban reportedly barring government employees without beards as restrictions on daily life mount
Afghanistan’s Taliban has instructed all authorities workers to put on a beard and cling to a costume code or threat being fired, three sources advised Reuters, the most recent of a number of new restrictions imposed by the hardline Islamist administration.
The sources mentioned representatives from the Ministry for the Propagation of Advantage and Prevention of Vice had been patrolling the entrances to authorities workplaces on Monday to examine that workers had been in compliance with the brand new guidelines.
Staff had been being instructed to not shave their beards and to put on native clothes consisting of an extended, unfastened prime and trousers, and a hat or turban. They had been additionally advised to make sure they prayed on the appropriate instances, two of the sources mentioned.
Staff had been advised they might any further be unable to enter workplaces and would ultimately be fired if they didn’t meet the costume codes, the sources mentioned.
A spokesman for the general public morality ministry didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Parks ordered segregated by intercourse
Final week, the Taliban banned girls from taking flights with no male chaperone and did not open ladies’ colleges as promised.
On Sunday it ordered parks to be segregated by intercourse, with girls allowed to enter three days every week, and males the opposite 4 days, together with the weekend, that means even married {couples} and households can not go to collectively.
The Taliban administration has drawn criticism at residence and from Western governments for forcing its hardline interpretation of Islamic regulation onto all Afghans.
The Taliban say they are going to respect everybody’s rights according to Islamic regulation and Afghan customs and that they’ve modified since their 1996-2001 rule, once they barred girls from leaving the home with no male family member and compelled males to develop beards.
Wednesday’s U-turn on ladies’ colleges led to protests from the worldwide neighborhood, together with the US, which pulled out of deliberate conferences with Taliban officers in Qatar to debate key financial points.
The Taliban wants Western international locations to elevate sanctions which can be crippling the Afghan financial system.
