The interim mayor of Afghanistan’s capital says the nation’s new Taliban rulers have ordered most of the metropolis’s feminine staff to remain at residence.
Hamdulla Namoni informed reporters on Sunday that solely ladies allowed to go to work can’t be changed by males. They say this contains expert staff within the design and engineering departments in addition to feminine attendants of public bogs for girls.
Namani’s feedback have been one other signal that the Taliban have been imposing their very own harsh interpretation of Islam, together with a ban on ladies in public life, regardless of their early guarantees of tolerance and inclusion. In its earlier regime within the Nineteen Nineties, the Taliban barred women and girls from faculties and jobs.
The mayor says that the ultimate resolution concerning feminine staff in Kabul municipal departments continues to be pending, and they’ll obtain their salaries within the meantime.
He says that earlier than the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan final month, solely a 3rd of the town’s 3,000 staff have been ladies, working in all departments.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
