The Taliban have ordered airways in Afghanistan to prevent ladies from boarding flights until followed via way of means of a male family member, aviation officers informed AFP.
The modern day limit on ladies follows Wednesday’s shutdown of all women’ secondary colleges simply hours when they had been allowed to reopen for the primary time for the reason that hardline Islamists seized strength in August.
Two officers from Afghanistan’s Ariana Afghan airline and Kam Air stated past due on Sunday that the Taliban had ordered them to prevent boarding ladies in the event that they had been journeying alone.
The selection become taken after a assembly on Thursday among representatives of the Taliban, the 2 airways and airport immigration authorities, the officers informed AFP, asking now no longer to be named.
Since the Taliban’s go back to strength, many curbs on ladies’s freedoms had been reintroduced — regularly applied regionally on the whim of nearby officers from the Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
The ministry stated it had now no longer issued any directive banning ladies from taking flights alone.
But a letter issued via way of means of a senior reputable of Ariana Afghan to the airline’s workforce after the assembly with the Taliban, a replica of which become received via way of means of AFP, showed the brand new measure.
“No ladies are allowed to fly on any home or global flights with out a male family member,” the letter stated.
Two tour sellers AFP contacted additionally showed that they’d stopped issuing tickets to solo ladies travellers.
“Some ladies who had been journeying with out a male family member had been now no longer allowed to board a Kam Air flight from Kabul to Islamabad on Friday,” a passenger who become on that flight informed AFP.
An Afghan girl with a US passport become additionally now no longer allowed to board a flight to Dubai on Friday, every other supply stated.
The Taliban have already banned inter-metropolis avenue journeys for ladies journeying alone, however till now they had been unfastened to take flights.
The Taliban have promised a softer model of the cruel Islamist rule that characterized their first stint in strength from 1996 to 2001.
But due to the fact August, they’ve rolled lower back many years of profits made via way of means of Afghanistan’s ladies.
Women had been squeezed out of maximum authorities jobs and secondary college education, in addition to ordered to get dressed consistent with a strict interpretation of the Koran.
Tens of heaps of women flocked lower back to elegance on Wednesday after colleges reopened, however officers ordered them domestic simply hours into the day, triggering global outrage.
Authorities have nevertheless now no longer given a clean motive for the coverage reversal.