RASC: After the Ministry of Amr Bil Maruf of the Taliban group justified the decision to close women’s hair salons, the officers of the Department of Amr Bil Maruf of Kunduz sent warning letters to women’s hair salons in the alleys and back alleys of Kunduz city.
In some of these warnings, the last deadline for women’s hair salons to operate is mentioned until the 25 month of July of the current year.
In addition, in these warning letters, the activity of hairdressing salons has been called heresy and against Islamic values.
Mrs. Zarina, the owner of one of these women’s hair salons, says: “After the Taliban group killed my husband, life with all its hardships weighed heavily on my shoulders; House rent, living expenses, my children’s school fees…
Zarina continued while squeezing her throat: “My husband was a police officer; he was martyred seven years ago in the fall of Kunduz city to the Taliban group, in a confrontational war.”
She says: “It was here that life showed its poisonous smiles to me and my children.”
In the traditional and patriarchal society, no caressing hands reached out to hold us, and no tears were wiped from my children’s faces; we opened this hair dressing salon with the skills I had from the past, with my husband’s pension for several years and some borrowed money from one of the private banks.
Mrs. Zarina says that the wheel of my life revolves around this one hairdressing shop, and my children are going to school for unknown tomorrows. Of course, if we have a tomorrow with the existence of these (zombies).
This woman continues: “With the implementation of this new order of the Taliban group, they will lose the funds they had saved in this field, in addition to being unemployed.
After the fall of the republican system and the occupation of the country, the Taliban group has closed all channels of education and work for girls and women, and this time it was the turn of hairdressing salons.
Nevertheless, the officials of the Department of Amr Bil Maruf in Kunduz have said that they adhere to the observance of women’s rights only within the framework of Islamic Sharia.
This directorate says that any law that is against Islamic values and Afghanistan culture and traditions is not acceptable.
However, these restrictions are not only imposed on women’s hair salons, but also on men’s hair salons.
This increases the concern of citizens, especially the young, day by day; as during the days of Eid, several barbers were arrested from their shops on the charge of shaving their customers’ beards, and they were released again after giving guarantees from the families of these barbers.
