A girl walks previous magnificence salons with window decorations which have been defaced in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021.

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A girl walks previous magnificence salons with window decorations which have been defaced in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021.

Bernat Armangue/AP

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban are banning ladies’s magnificence salons in Afghanistan, a authorities spokesman stated Tuesday.

It’s the most recent curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan ladies and women, following edicts barring them from education, public areas and most types of employment.

A spokesman for the Taliban-run Virtue and Vice Ministry, Mohammad Sidik Akif Mahajar, did not give particulars of the ban. He solely confirmed the contents of a letter circulating on social media.

The ministry-issued letter, dated June 24, says it conveys a verbal order from the supreme chief, Hibatullah Akhundzada. The ban targets the capital, Kabul, and all provinces, and offers salons all through the nation a month’s discover to wind down their companies. After that interval, they need to shut and submit a report about their closure. The letter does not give causes for the ban.

Its launch comes days after Akhundzada claimed that his authorities has taken the mandatory steps for the betterment of ladies’s lives in Afghanistan.

It drew criticism from human and ladies’s rights defenders on social media.

The United Nations on Tuesday additionally stated it was engaged with the authorities in Afghanistan to get the ban on magnificence salons reversed. The U.N. mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, took to Twitter, urging the Taliban to halt the edict.

“This new restriction on women’s rights will impact negatively on the economy&contradicts stated support for women entrepreneurship,” it stated.

Earlier, one magnificence salon proprietor stated she was her household’s solely breadwinner after her husband died in a 2017 automotive bombing. She did not wish to be named or point out her salon for concern of reprisals.

Between eight to 12 ladies go to her Kabul salon every single day, she stated.

“Day by day they (the Taliban) are imposing limitations on women,” she instructed The Associated Press. “Why are they only targeting women? Aren’t we human? Don’t we have the right to work or live?”

Despite preliminary guarantees of a extra reasonable rule than throughout their earlier stint in energy within the Nineties, the Taliban have imposed harsh measures since seizing Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces had been pulling out.

They have barred ladies from public areas, like parks and gymnasiums, and cracked down on media freedoms. The measures have triggered a fierce worldwide uproar, rising the nation’s isolation at a time when its financial system has collapsed — and have worsened a humanitarian disaster.