Kabul: Female Presenter AfghanistanMajor TV channels of the state were broadcast without covering the face on Saturday Taliban Order that they hide their presence to adhere to the group’s rigid brand of Islam.
Since coming back to power last year, the Taliban have imposed a number of sanctions on civil society, many of which have focused on reining in the rights of women and girls.
Earlier this month Afghanistan’s supreme leader issued an order for women to completely cover up traditionally women in public, including their faces. burqa,
The apprehensive ministry of virtue promotion and vice prevention ordered women TV presenters to comply by Saturday.
Previously they were only required to wear a headscarf.
However, broadcasters TOLOnews, Shamshad TV and 1TV all broadcast live programs on Saturday with the faces of female presenters.
Shamshad TV news head Abid Ehsaas said, “Our female colleagues are worried that if they cover their faces, the next thing they will be told is to stop working.”
“That’s why they haven’t followed the order so far,” he told AFP.
Deputy ministry spokesman Mohammad Sadiq Akif Mohajir said the women were violating the Taliban’s directive.
“If they do not comply we will speak to the managers and guardians of the presenters,” he told AFP.
“Any person who lives under a particular system and government has to follow the laws and orders of that system, so they should implement the order,” he said.
The Taliban have demanded that female government employees be fired for failing to comply with the new dress code.
Men working in the government also run the risk of suspension if they fail to obey their wives or daughters.
Mohajir said Media Managers and male guardians of defiant female presenters will also be liable for punishment if the order is not followed.
The Taliban had previously promised a softer version of the harsh Islamic regime, which characterized their first term in power from 1996 to 2001.
During two decades of US-led military intervention in Afghanistan, women and girls made modest gains in a deeply patriarchal nation.
But since August women have been banned from traveling alone and teenage girls have been barred from attending secondary schools.
In the 20 years after the Taliban was ousted from power, many women in conservative rural areas continued to wear the burqa.
However, most Afghan women, including TV presenters, chose Islamic headscarves.
Television channels have stopped showing women’s dramas and serials following orders from Taliban officials.
Since coming back to power last year, the Taliban have imposed a number of sanctions on civil society, many of which have focused on reining in the rights of women and girls.
Earlier this month Afghanistan’s supreme leader issued an order for women to completely cover up traditionally women in public, including their faces. burqa,
The apprehensive ministry of virtue promotion and vice prevention ordered women TV presenters to comply by Saturday.
Previously they were only required to wear a headscarf.
However, broadcasters TOLOnews, Shamshad TV and 1TV all broadcast live programs on Saturday with the faces of female presenters.
Shamshad TV news head Abid Ehsaas said, “Our female colleagues are worried that if they cover their faces, the next thing they will be told is to stop working.”
“That’s why they haven’t followed the order so far,” he told AFP.
Deputy ministry spokesman Mohammad Sadiq Akif Mohajir said the women were violating the Taliban’s directive.
“If they do not comply we will speak to the managers and guardians of the presenters,” he told AFP.
“Any person who lives under a particular system and government has to follow the laws and orders of that system, so they should implement the order,” he said.
The Taliban have demanded that female government employees be fired for failing to comply with the new dress code.
Men working in the government also run the risk of suspension if they fail to obey their wives or daughters.
Mohajir said Media Managers and male guardians of defiant female presenters will also be liable for punishment if the order is not followed.
The Taliban had previously promised a softer version of the harsh Islamic regime, which characterized their first term in power from 1996 to 2001.
During two decades of US-led military intervention in Afghanistan, women and girls made modest gains in a deeply patriarchal nation.
But since August women have been banned from traveling alone and teenage girls have been barred from attending secondary schools.
In the 20 years after the Taliban was ousted from power, many women in conservative rural areas continued to wear the burqa.
However, most Afghan women, including TV presenters, chose Islamic headscarves.
Television channels have stopped showing women’s dramas and serials following orders from Taliban officials.