Seeing as they're following their Iranian counterparts.

Male students, professors walk out of Afghan universities to protest ban on female students.

People don't like going backwards.

Is there no end to this religious nuttery?

Taliban announce ban on beauty salons in Afghanistan in latest crackdown on women's rights.

The Taliban are banning women's beauty salons in Afghanistan, the latest curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls.

The announcement follows edicts barring them from education, public spaces and most forms of employment.

A spokesman for the Taliban-run Virtue and Vice Ministry, Mohammad Sidik Akif Mahajar, did not give details of the ban.

He only confirmed the contents of a letter circulating on social media.

The ministry-issued letter, dated June 24, said it conveyed a verbal order from the supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada.

The ban targets the capital Kabul and all provinces, and gives salons throughout the country a month's notice to wind down their businesses.

After that period, they must close and submit a report about their closure. The letter did not give reasons for the ban......

Is it because they don't like women talking behind their backs?

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/07/afghanistan-in-the-1950s-and-60s/100544/

Images from the 1950s and 1960s before Taliban rule. The West and the USSR tried to modernize the country. Russians wanted to expand their Empire. Americans wanted to counter that, like the British before. Each modernization step was too far and too fast and did not take into account the will and pre-modern views of the rural population. The Taliban had it easy when western youth discovered Kabul as an exotic travel destination, strolled through Kabul with mini skirts and loose hair. The West and USSR built a capital like from another planet. How do you bring a country from the Stone Age* to modern times in 50...100 years? Extremely difficult.

*Stone Age? Stone Age! Large deposits of iron ore, they can't smelt it.

Maybe these male religious nutters should castrate themselves so that women can be safer than being sent to prison.

Taliban sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence, says UN report.

Taliban officials are sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence, according to a new UN report.

Before the Taliban seized power in 2021, there were 23 state-sponsored women protection centres in Afghanistan where survivors of gender-based violence could seek refuge.

Now there are none, said the UN report published on Thursday.

Officials from the Taliban-led administration told the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan that there was no need for such shelters or that they were a Western concept.

The Taliban sends women to prison if they have no male relatives to stay with or if the male relatives are considered unsafe, the report said.

Authorities have also asked male relatives for commitments or sworn statements that they will not harm a female relative, inviting local elders to witness the guarantee, it added.

Women are sent to prison for their protection "akin to how prisons have been used to accommodate drug addicts and homeless people in Kabul," the report said.

The Associated Press contacted Taliban-led ministries about where survivors of gender-based violence can seek help, what protection measures are in place, and the conviction rates for offenders, but nobody was available for comment......