Afghan ladies not barred from talking to one another: Taliban Morality Ministry

Afghan ladies wait to obtain meals rations distributed by a humanitarian support group, in Kabul, Afghanistan. File
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Girls in Afghanistan aren’t forbidden from talking to one another, the Taliban authorities’s Morality Ministry stated on Saturday (November 9, 2024), denying latest media reviews of a ban.

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Afghan media based mostly outdoors the nation and worldwide retailers have in latest weeks reported a ban on ladies listening to different ladies’s voices, based mostly on an audio recording of the top of the Ministry for the Propagation of Advantage and the Prevention of Vice (PVPV), Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, about guidelines of prayer.

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PVPV spokesman Saiful Islam Khyber stated the reviews had been “brainless” and “illogical”, in a voice recording confirmed by AFP.

“A lady can speak to a different lady, ladies have to work together with each other in society, ladies do have their wants,” he stated.

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He added, nonetheless, that there have been exceptions in keeping with Islamic regulation, similar to these described by Hanafi that ladies ought to use hand gestures as a substitute of elevating their voices to speak with different ladies whereas praying.

Girls in Afghanistan are barred from singing or reciting poetry aloud in public, in keeping with a latest “vice and advantage” regulation detailing sweeping codes of behaviour, together with that ladies’s voices must be “hid” together with their our bodies when outdoors their houses.

Girls’s voices have additionally been banned from tv and radio broadcasts in some provinces.

The regulation codified many guidelines the Taliban authorities has imposed based mostly on their strict interpretation of Islamic regulation since they got here to energy in 2021, with ladies bearing the brunt of restrictions the United Nations has known as “gender apartheid”.

The Taliban authorities have banned schooling after secondary faculty for women and girls, additionally barring them from varied jobs in addition to parks and different public locations.

The Taliban authorities has stated all Afghan residents’ rights are assured below Islamic regulation.