As Taliban successfully established their control of Afghanistan on Sunday, a picture has emerged on Twitter showing a man covering up pictures of women painted on a wall in Kabul.
Several advertisements of women wearing wedding dresses appear to have been painted over in Kabul after Taliban fighters entered Afghanistan’s capital. The particular picture shows a man using a roller and white paint to cover up large images of women outside a beauty salon.
The incident comes despite a Taliban spokesperson’s claim the militant group “will respect rights of women”, but also said that they will have to wear the hijab in public. A Taliban spokesperson asserted, “We will respect rights of women. Our policy is that women will have access to education and work, to wear the hijab.”
Reports from areas the Taliban have captured indicate that women are already not being allowed out of their homes without a male companion and that some female employees were told their jobs would now be carried out by men. Women in these areas are also being told to wear burkas. The incident is a sign that rights won by Afghan women over the 20 years could be reversed, now that the Taliban have come to power.
News Source : Independent
