Taliban already impose bans on women, music and media

Taliban advance in settlement a retrograde and punitive regime in Afghanistan, especially against women.

The last measure in this regard is the ban on “female voices” on Kandahar radio and television stations, India Today reported.

In recent days, the Taliban music has been banned “because that’s what Islam says.”

In the meantime, it’s also the news the murder of a popular folk singer and also the separation in university courses of men and women.

Former Afghan interior minister Masoud Andarabi denounces Taliban killing of folk singer Fawad Andarabi.

The “brutal murder”, he reported, took place in Andarab, in the south of Baghlan province. The musician was taken from his home and beaten by the Taliban.

“We will not bow to their brutality”writes the former minister.

The head of the Taliban education portfolio announced that from now on in Afghan universities female and male students will be divided.

Money

“They will continue to study in separate classes, as required by Sharia law.”Abdul Baqi Haqqani told Tolo News. In contrast, hundreds of people continued to crowd the doors of Kabul’s banks in the hope of withdrawing money from ATMs or their accounts, inaccessible since the Taliban took power in the country.

Some people arrived at 4 a.m. (local time), there were clashes in front of some banks with the Taliban, who threw stones to disperse the crowd.

Almost all of Panshir’s internet and telecommunications networks have been disrupted by the Taliban, local sources reported.

Panshir is the northeastern province of the country that has become the center of resistance against the Taliban. With Baghlan, it’s the only area they don’t control.

Other complaints

Renowned Afghan photographer who fled the country after Taliban threats claims regime dismantle the Afghan media and that its representatives deceive the West by promising to let journalists work freely.

Massud Hossaini, Pulitzer Prize winner in 2012 when he worked for Agence France-Presse and who now works as a freelance, explains in an interview with AFP that the new masters of Afghanistan they are already blocking the press, especially women journalists.

“This is going to be very, very bad. (The Taliban) they try to kill the mediabut they’re doing it slowly, ”the 39-year-old photographer said in a desperate appeal from the Netherlands after fleeing Afghanistan on the last commercial flight from Kabul.

After the fall of Kabul, representatives of the Taliban assured that the media, including the women who worked there, could continue to exercise freely and they would not be harassed.

They even held an official press conference during which a spokesperson answered questions from the press.

For the photographer Taliban promises are a sham.

“The Taliban will completely liquidate the media, they will also completely shut down the internet eventually become a new North Korea in the region», He declared during an exhibition in Amsterdam of the World Press Photo, the competition in which he won, also in 2012, the second place for the image of a girl dressed in green crying in horror. after a suicide bombing.

“Today, they are deceiving the international community, they are deceiving the West,” he warns, calling the press conference as a “ploy”.

Hossaini, long targeted by the Taliban, fled Afghanistan after learning that Islamists “really hated” her recent coverage with a foreign journalist on forced marriages of women and girls with Taliban fighters.

After being threatened on social networks, the two decided to escape from Kabul. Hossaini took off on the morning of August 15, just before the Taliban entered the capital.

Since then there has been horror scenes and images, like the double suicide bombing perpetrated Thursday at Kabul airport, which killed around 100 people, including 13 American soldiers.

Images that for him are “even worse” than the one that allowed him to win the Pulitzer: “The images of this attack are truly horrific.”

Source; ANSA and AFP

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