The local authorities in Nangarhar province have stopped women and girls from working in an olive factory, local sources in the province told Rukhshana Media.
Local sources said the ban happened on Wednesday, January 3 in Nangarhar’s capital Jalalabad. The move cuts off the income for hundreds of women working at the plant.
For ten years women worked in Hadda Farm area of the city in different sectors, according to local sources.
A local source working in the factory, who talked anonymously, told Rukhshana Media that they [the fired girls and women] face a difficult economic situation.
The source added that these women were working in olive pickling, processing, oil making, and in different parts of the factory.
Akhtar Mohammad Hashemi, the factory’s manager, also confirmed the news and said that out of 1500 people, 300 of them were women.
Hashemi said that the lack of female employees has caused many problems in the plant and the production process has been delayed.
He asked the Taliban authorities to allow the female employees of the factory to return to their jobs.
In October last year, the Taliban banned women from working in the pine nuts processing plant in Nangarhar province.
The Taliban has also issued a ban on women’s work in national and international NGOs, and beauty salons across the country.
