The Taliban has banned ladies from visiting a preferred nationwide park in Afghanistan.
Security forces will probably be used to cease ladies going to the famend Band-e-Amir National Park within the Bamiyan province, in accordance its all-male vice and advantage ministry.
Minister Mohammad Khalid Hanafi stated ladies had not been following the proper method of sporting the hijab within the park after he had visited the area.
Mr Hanafi notified officers and spiritual clerics of this alleged infraction, including that "going sightseeing is not a must for women".
The prohibition provides to an inventory of restrictive measures imposed upon ladies and women because the Taliban returned to energy in August 2021, 20 years after it was toppled by US forces.
Last November, the Taliban-led authorities barred ladies from utilizing public areas, together with parks, citing hijab violations or apparently not following gender segregation guidelines.
Girls have additionally been prevented from pursuing additional schooling, together with college, with Afghanistan the one nation on the earth to ban them from attending secondary faculty.
More just lately, Afghan feminine college students have been forbidden from finding out overseas, in response to a md of a gaggle providing them scholarships within the United Arab Emirates.
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The Taliban has intervened in Afghan ladies's careers, barring them from jobs at native and non-governmental organisations.
The fundamentalist group has repeatedly quashed protests from ladies who've demanded their freedoms.
'Walls closing in on ladies'
A human rights chief has closely criticised the Taliban's most up-to-date measure, saying that each dwelling was changing into "a prison".
Heather Barr, affiliate ladies's rights director at Human Rights Watch, stated: "Not content with depriving girls and women of education, employment, and free movement, the Taliban also want to take from them parks and sport and now even nature, as we see from this latest ban on women visiting Band-e-Amir.
"Step by step the partitions are closing in on ladies as each dwelling turns into a jail."
The regressive insurance policies sparked widespread condemnation, together with Muslim-majority international locations.
Turkey had known as the college ban "neither Islamic nor humane", whereas Saudi Arabia - which till 2019 had imposed a number of restrictions on ladies - expressed "astonishment and regret" at Afghan ladies being denied a college schooling.
Band-e-Amir is famous for its deep blue lakes, changing into Afghanistan's first nationwide park in 2009 and pulls in 1000's of tourists yearly.
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