The new Taliban mayor of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul has told female municipal employees to stay home unless their jobs cannot be filled by a man.
With the latest restriction imposed on Afghanistan’s women by the country’s hard-line new Islamist government, the Mayor, Hamdullah Nomany said the Taliban “found it necessary to stop women from working for a while”.
Recall that during their previous rule in the 1990s women were barred from education and the workplace.
After seizing the country last month following the withdrawal of US forces, the Taliban said women’s rights would be respected “within the framework of Islamic law”.
