Women are reportedly “bored and fed up” with being compelled to remain home as a result of the new order, which has had a devastating impact on business.
Just a few short months after issuing an order mandating that access be divided according to gender, the Taliban in Afghanistan has issued a decree that prevents Afghan women from attending the public parks and funfairs in the Afghan capital.
This week saw the implementation of a new regulation that further restricts women’s access to an already diminishing public sphere. They are already required to cover their heads in a hijab or burqa anytime they go outside of the house, and traveling without a male chaperone is prohibited them. Additionally, secondary schools for females have been closed for more than a year throughout the majority of the nation.
Mohammad Akif Sadeq Mohajir, the spokesperson for the Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue, stated, “For the past 15 months, we tried our best to arrange and sort it out – and even specified the days”. “But still, in some places – in fact, we must say in many places – the rules were violated,” he said in an interview with AFP. “There was mixing, hijab was not observed, that’s why the decision has been taken for now.”
Women and the managers of the park, who have made significant financial investments in the development of the amenities, reacted with dismay to the news.
