In a recent action, the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan’s Herat Province on Monday forbade families and women from entering restaurants with gardens and green areas.
The Taliban forbade families and women from entering restaurants with gardens or outside areas in Afghanistan’s Herat province on Monday.
In response to a complaint from the clergy, the de facto administration made the decision. Religious leaders bemoaned the presence of both men and women in such crowds.
Afghan officials put the restrictions in place as a result of gender mixing and the lack of the hijab, however. Only eateries in the province of Herat that have green spaces are now subject to the prohibition.
Officials in Herat, however, claimed that these limits only apply to diners with green spaces, such as parks, and eateries with green and garden spaces, while denying that they apply to all restaurants.
Baz Mohammad Nazir from the Ministry of Vice and Virtue’s directorate in Herat reportedly refuted media claims that all restaurants were off-limits to families and women, characterising them as misinformation, according to a deputy official, according to Fox News.
Since August 2021, when the Taliban regained control of the country, they have prohibited women from working in education, with domestic and foreign organizations, in gyms, and in public places.
The Taliban government has forbade Afghan women relief workers from working for the UN in the Afghan province of Nangarhar.
Regional and international organisations sharply criticised the Taliban’s repressive practises and the Taliban’s restriction on women’s work and education.
The UN continues to impose limitations on female assistance workers, including a prohibition on girls’ further education beyond the sixth grade.