By Rukhshana Media
The Taliban officials in Badakhshan pledged to implement Islamic “Hijab” through mosques, moral police, and local media, the Taliban-controlled state news agency reported.
Bakhtar News, the state-run news agency, reported that in a meeting with Mullahs, the officials of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue in Badakhshan province called implementing “hijab” a religious obligation and pledged to implement it through media, mosques, and moral police.
Mazuddin Ahmadi, the director of information and cultural directorate in the province, said the office controls local media, which it can use to “implement Islamic values and Hijab,” according to Bakhtar News.
This is a rare instance where the Taliban admitted using local media outlets to implement their policies.
The news is another confirmation of the Taliban’s clampdown on women’s rights and their repression and intimidation of journalists.
Since the Taliban took over, they closed schools for teenage girls and banned almost all women from work. In late December, the Taliban announced a travel ban for women without male chaperones, and the announcement came with a requirement for compulsory “hijab” for women using transport.
Then poster of women fully covered in a burqa and a black niqab popped up across the country with a message for women: “As per Sharia law, Muslim women should wear hijab.”
In January, a group of UN human rights experts warned that the “Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls.”
