No Freedom to Women in Afghanistan, Taliban Orders Women Employees to ‘Stay Home’
New Delhi: The Taliban in Afghanistan once again cleared its stand on the freedom of women and their rights. The interim mayor of Afghanistan‘s capital Kabul – says many female city employees have been ordered to stay home by the country’s new Taliban rulers.
Hamdullah Namony on Sunday told the media that “only women who could not be replaced by men have been permitted to report to work, this includes skilled workers in the design and engineering departments as well as female attendants of public toilets for women.”
Comments of Namony were another sign of the Taliban that enforcing their harsh interpretation of Islam, including restrictions on women in public life, despite their initial promises of tolerance and inclusion. The Taliban terrorists are not allowing anybody to raise their voice against them.
In their previous rule in the 1990s, the Taliban had barred girls and women from schools and jobs. The mayor says a final decision about female employees in Kabul municipal departments is still pending, and that they would draw their salaries in the meantime.
“Before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last month, just under one-third of close to 3,000 city employees were women who worked in all departments,” Namony said.
