RASC News Agency: Local sources in Ghazni province report that the Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has imposed a mandate on university professors and students to wear turbans or Pashtun hats and grow beards. This directive follows a joint meeting between the Taliban’s Ministry of Virtue and the Ministry of Guidance and Preaching at Ghazni’s Engineering and Technical University.
According to sources, students have been instructed not to shave their beards and to wear either a turban or Pashtun hat when entering the university. Failure to comply with these regulations will result in expulsion, the sources added. This mandate is part of the Taliban’s broader strategy to enforce similar dress codes across universities in Afghanistan. Just days ago, a similar order was issued at Badakhshan University, compelling faculty, staff, and students to adopt the same appearance.
The Taliban’s imposition of such dress codes is part of their effort to reshape Afghanistan into a rigid, tribal society, disconnected from global progress and modern development. By enforcing Pashtun tribal customs as the national standard and framing this as an application of Islamic law, the Taliban seeks to erase the country’s rich cultural diversity and impose a singular, archaic vision upon the Afghanistani people.
