RASC: Following the prohibition of the activities of women’s beauty parlors, a number of female hair stylists in Kabul say to the leader of the Taliban group, “You took the pen from our hands, don’t take the art from our hands!”
Female hairdressers in Kabul, on Wednesday, July 12, by gathering at the National Union of Professionals, ask the Taliban group to withdraw the order banning the activities of women’s beauty parlors.
A source from among female hairdressers in Kabul, by sending video tapes of this gathering, says that female hairdressers from different parts of Kabul have gathered in the tradesmen’s union and have raised their demands through this union with the leadership of the Taliban group.
In these video tapes, one of the female hairdressers says to Mullah Hebatullah, the leader of the Taliban group: “You took the pen from our hands, don’t take the art from our hands.”
Meanwhile, another of these female hairdressers says that there are more than 12,000 beauty parlors in Afghanistan, each of which employs at least 15 to 20 female hairdressers.
She says that among female hairdressers, most of them do not have male workers and are the sole breadwinners of their families.
She says that she is the sole breadwinner of two families and asks the Taliban group to withdraw this order and allow them to continue their art.
In this protest, another hairdresser says: “A mother has a lot of patience; but when she comes to the home and family and when she sees the crying and distress of her child and is unable to provide for her needs, his patience runs out.”
She says that all sections of the society are connected like a chain and if the activities of hairdressing salons stop, many other professions may also fall.
She adds that when women’s hair salons are closed, thousands of women will be unemployed and poverty will intensify among the country’s families, and instead of growing, the country will be led to a severe economic crisis. This is while the Taliban group issued an order banning the operation of women’s hair salons last week.
In this order, it was stated that according to the order of Mullah Hebatullah, the leader of this group, the licenses of all women’s hair salons have been canceled and their activities are prohibited since August July 25.
