Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from visiting popular national park

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Source: BBC

Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from visiting popular national park

27 August 2023

By Antoinette Radford
BBC News

The Taliban government have banned women from visiting the Band-e-Amir national park in Bamiyan province.

Afghanistan's acting minister of virtue and vice, Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, said women had not been observing hijab inside the park.

He called on religious clerics and security agencies to forbid women from entering until a solution was found.

Band-e-Amir is a significant tourist attraction, becoming Afghanistan's first national park in 2009.

It is a popular destination for families and the ban on women attending will prevent many from being able to enjoy the park.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66633178


Band-e-Amir, seen here in May this year, was Afghanistan's first national park (Getty Images)

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Source: The Guardian

Taliban bans women from national park in Afghanistan

Minister says women visiting the lakes of Band-e-Amir were not wearing their hijabs properly

Ashifa Kassam and agencies
Sun 27 Aug 2023 18.48 BST
Last modified on Sun 27 Aug 2023 18.54 BST

The Taliban have banned women from visiting one of Afghanistan’s most popular national parks, adding to a long list of restrictions aimed at shrinking women’s access to public places.

Thousands of people descend each year on Band-e-Amir national park, taking in its stunning landscape of sapphire-blue lakes and towering cliffs in the country’s central Bamiyan province.

The ban was announced after the country’s acting minister of vice and virtue complained that women visiting the park had not been adhering to the proper way of wearing the hijab.

“Going sightseeing is not a must for women,” said Mohammad Khalid Hanafi as he asked security forces to begin halting women’s entry into the park.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/27/taliban-bans-women-from-national-park-in-afghanistan

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1. I have been saying for years

that the downtrodden women need to kill their husbands in their sleep. It sounds awful and stupid but I see no other way out. The women are in a war with power and one must start somewhere. I remember reading about women in the US having their arms chained high in the jail cells ordered by the President because they wanted the vote. We women fought back in our country and women in backwards places must do the same. Whole situation is awful.

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2. Mind boggling

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3. I HATE motherfucking men who are so insecure with their LUSTS.

FUCK EM!!!!