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Afghanistan: Kabul mayor urges city officials to stay home

The new mayor of Taliban of its capital Afghanistan, of Kabul, called on all female municipal officials to stay home unless they can be replaced by a man.

According to the BBC, Hamdullah Nomani stated that the Taliban “consider it necessary to stop women working for some time”.

This is the last restriction imposed on women in Afghanistan by the new hardline Islamist government of Afghanistan.

During the previous period of Taliban rule in the country, in the 1990s, work and education were prohibited for women.

The Islamist movement closed the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and replaced it with another, which in the previous Taliban rule imposed strict religious doctrines.

The gymnasiums reopened these days, but only students and male teachers returned to the classrooms. The Taliban have said they are working to reopen girls’ schools as well.

According to the mayor of Kabul, about a third of the municipality’s 3,000 employees are women. He said some of them will continue to work.

“For example, women work in the women’s toilets in the city, where men cannot go. But for positions that can be filled by others (men), we have invited (women) to stay in their homes until the situation normalizes. “Their salaries will be paid,” said the mayor.

This means that only those women who work in places that are exclusively for women will continue to work as before.

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