Women in Afghanistan aren’t forbidden from speaking to 1 one other, the Taliban authorities’s morality ministry instructed AFP on Saturday, denying newest media tales of a ban.
Afghan media primarily based outdoor the nation and worldwide retailers have in newest weeks reported a ban on women listening to totally different women’s voices, primarily based totally on an audio recording of the top of the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (PVPV), Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, about tips of prayer.
PVPV spokesman Saiful Islam Khyber acknowledged the tales had been “brainless” and “illogical”, in a voice recording confirmed by AFP.
“A woman can talk to another woman, women need to interact with one another in society, women do have their needs,” he acknowledged.
He added, nonetheless, that there have been exceptions consistent with Islamic laws, equal to those described by Hanafi that ladies ought to make use of hand gestures in its place of elevating their voices to talk with totally different women whereas praying.
Women in Afghanistan are barred from singing or reciting poetry aloud in public, consistent with a contemporary “vice and virtue” laws detailing sweeping codes of behaviour, along with that ladies’s voices must be “concealed” along with their our our bodies when outdoor their homes.
Women’s voices have moreover been banned from television and radio broadcasts in some provinces.
The laws codified many tips the Taliban authorities has imposed primarily based totally on their strict interpretation of Islamic laws since they received right here to power in 2021, with women bearing the brunt of restrictions the United Nations has referred to as “gender apartheid”.
The Taliban authorities have banned education after secondary school for girls and ladies, moreover barring them from quite a few jobs along with parks and totally different public places.
The Taliban authorities has acknowledged all Afghan residents’ rights are assured beneath Islamic laws.
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