Afghanistan: Order to shut magnificence salons in a single month

In keeping with enterprise circles, sixty thousand ladies are feared to be unemployed because of the order of the ruling Taliban authorities in Afghanistan to shut ladies’s magnificence salons.

An official of the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Trade instructed BBC Pashto that round 60,000 ladies throughout the nation will grow to be unemployed because of the Taliban authorities’s resolution. In keeping with the federal government order, all salons have been ordered to shut their enterprise inside one month.

The official, who didn’t need to be named resulting from safety considerations, added that there are greater than 3,000 ladies’s magnificence salons within the capital, Kabul, whereas there are 12,000 magnificence salons throughout the nation, with a median of 5 ladies in every. They work.

The official instructed the BBC that the Taliban authorities’s Ministry of Public Affairs had additionally verbally warned them to not speak to the media concerning the salon ban.

On the identical time, UNAMA, the United Nations assist mission in Afghanistan, stated that this ban is a brand new try on ladies’s rights and could have a damaging affect on Afghanistan’s economic system.

UNAMA added that the choice contradicts its declaration of assist for ladies’s entrepreneurship.

The United Nations Political Mission in Afghanistan has requested the ruling authorities to withdraw their resolution on this regard.

“I feel it will be higher if there have been no ladies on this society,” a Kabul parlor supervisor instructed AFP on situation of anonymity. I’m saying now: I want I did not exist. I want we weren’t born in Afghanistan or weren’t from Afghanistan.’

Mohammad Sadiq Akif Mohajer, spokesman for the Ministry of Promotion of Advantage and Prevention of Evil, didn’t say why the order was given. “As soon as they’re closed, we’ll share the explanation with the media,” he instructed AFP.

He stated that companies have been given time to shut their affairs in order that they will use their shares with out incurring losses.

Information company AFP has seen a duplicate of the order, which says that the order relies on the verbal directions of Supreme Chief Haibatullah Akhundzada. Even in the course of the first Taliban regime, the capital metropolis of Kabul and several other different cities, Ceylon. had been closed however had been reactivated after their fall in 2001.

Though the Taliban allowed ladies’s magnificence salons to function after regaining management of Afghanistan in August 2021, the home windows of those salons had been painted over to cover the faces of the ladies.

The Taliban authorities has already banned women from finding out past the sixth grade, banned them from stadiums and parks, and lately barred them from working in UN workplaces. is given

However regardless of all these restrictions, Taliban authorities officers say they’re dedicated to giving ladies rights inside the framework of Islamic Sharia regulation.

Just a few days in the past, on the event of Eid, Taliban chief Mullah Haibatullah claimed in his message that below his system, ladies have been given all of the rights and that Afghanistan has achieved financial self-sufficiency for the primary time in its trendy historical past. .

In a message from the Taliban chief, which was printed on Sunday, June 25, on the Twitter account of the Normal Directorate of the Workplace of the Prime Minister, it’s stated that with the arrival of the Taliban, the federal government will take care of the overall oppression of Afghan ladies and Will take steps to reform hijab and chastity, they’ve been tried as half of the physique of the society.

The message, attributed to Mulla Haibatullah, claims that ‘the damaging results of not sporting the hijab and the misguidance of ladies throughout 20 years of occupation are about to finish. Relating to the rights of ladies, by issuing a six-clause decree, their dignity as a free and dignified human being was restored and their rights in marriage, inheritance and different issues had been revered and all departments had been ladies’s. are certain to assist.’

In his Eid al-Adha message, the pinnacle of the Taliban group referred to Afghanistan’s financial state of affairs, claiming that the nation had reached financial self-sufficiency for the primary time in its trendy historical past. He burdened that every one the predictions concerning the financial collapse of Afghanistan and the nationwide disaster in that nation turned out to be incorrect.

A lady enters a magnificence salon in Kabul on Saturday, September 11, 2021. Tuesday, July 4, 2023 A spokesman for Afghanistan’s Ministry of Vice and Welfare stated the Taliban had been banning ladies’s magnificence salons (AP/Bernett Arring)

Magnificence parlors proliferated in Kabul and different cities within the 20 years for the reason that US-led forces occupied the nation.

They had been seen as a protected place to collect and socialize away from males and supplied vital enterprise alternatives for ladies.

A salon worker, who recognized herself as Nilab, stated, ‘Ladies used to gossip. There was no preventing, no noise.’

One other salon supervisor stated that they employed 25 ladies who had been all breadwinners for his or her households. ‘They’re all heartbroken… what ought to they do?’