Kabul:
Girls in Afghanistan are usually not forbidden from talking to one another, the Taliban authorities’s morality ministry instructed AFP on Saturday, denying current media reviews of a ban.
Afghan media based mostly outdoors the nation and worldwide shops have in current weeks reported a ban on ladies listening to different ladies’s voices, based mostly on an audio recording of the pinnacle of the Ministry for the Propagation of Advantage and the Prevention of Vice (PVPV), Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, about guidelines of prayer.
PVPV spokesman Saiful Islam Khyber mentioned the reviews have been “brainless” and “illogical”, in a voice recording confirmed by AFP.
“A girl can speak to a different girl, ladies have to work together with each other in society, ladies do have their wants,” he mentioned.
He added, nevertheless, that there have been exceptions in response to Islamic legislation, similar to these described by Hanafi that girls 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 response to a current “vice and advantage” legislation detailing sweeping codes of behaviour, together with that girls’s voices must be “hid” together with their our bodies when outdoors their properties.
Girls’s voices have additionally been banned from tv and radio broadcasts in some provinces.
The legislation codified many guidelines the Taliban authorities has imposed based mostly on their strict interpretation of Islamic legislation 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 college for women and girls, additionally barring them from numerous jobs in addition to parks and different public locations.
The Taliban authorities has mentioned all Afghan residents’ rights are assured underneath Islamic legislation.
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