Taliban in Balkh Warn Women Not To Go Out Without Hijab

Using loudspeakers of mosques in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital city of the northern Balkh province, the Taliban have once again stressed the observance of hijab by women. The women should not go out without hijab, the group’s morality police have announced.

Muhtasibs – morality police – of the Taliban’s Vice and Virtue directorate also warn through the loudspeakers of the mosques that caretakers of those women who go out without hijab will be arrested and jailed, said a local source in the 7^th district of Mazar-e-Sharif to Kabul Now.