In charge of AfghanistanOh Taliban Will replace the Ministry of Women’s Affairs with Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The ministry was responsible for implementing harsh Islamic fundamentalist policies in the 1990s, when the extremist regime first ruled Afghan territory.
at that time, Virtue spreaders and addiction prevention agents have been known to flog women who walk alone in the street and demand other behaviour.Inspired by a strict interpretation of Islam.
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Agence France-Presse reported that workers put up a new sign with the name “Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice” where the former women’s portfolio is located.
Several messages posted in the past 24 hours on social media showed officials from the Ministry of Women’s Affairs demonstrating in front of the headquarters, claiming that they had been ousted.
“No one listens to our women,” one netizen denounced on Twitter, while another wrote sarcastically: “We can expect something different from these animals.”
No Taliban official responded to AFP’s requests for an interview on Friday (17) to explain these facts.
During a pro-Taliban rally in front of Shahid Rabbani University in Kabul, women carried posters and banners – one of them saying “We don’t want co-education”. Photo: Aamir Qureshi
Although the rebels insisted that they would govern with greater restraint than they had in their first term (1996-2001), they did not allow most women to return to work and introduced rules about their dress at university.
There is no woman in the new Taliban cabinet, which was announced two weeks ago.
During the first government of the fundamentalists, women were excluded from public life and could only leave the house if they were wearing a burqa and accompanied by a male relative.
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