Taliban had ordered the airways to cease boarding girls in the event that they have been travelling alone.

The Taliban have ordered airways in Afghanistan to cease girls from boarding flights except accompanied by a male family member, aviation officers advised AFP.

The newest restriction on girls follows Wednesday’s shutdown of all ladies’ secondary faculties simply hours after they have been allowed to reopen for the primary time for the reason that hardline Islamists seized energy in August.

Two officers from Afghanistan’s Ariana Afghan airline and Kam Air stated late on Sunday that the Taliban had ordered them to cease boarding girls in the event that they have been travelling alone.

The resolution was taken after a gathering on Thursday between representatives of the Taliban, the 2 airways and airport immigration authorities, the officers advised AFP, asking to not be named.

Since the Taliban’s return to energy, many curbs on girls’s freedoms have been reintroduced — typically carried out domestically on the whim of regional officers from the Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

The ministry stated it had not issued any directive banning girls from taking flights alone.

But a letter issued by a senior official of Ariana Afghan to the airline’s workers after the assembly with the Taliban, a replica of which was obtained by AFP, confirmed the brand new measure. 

“No women are allowed to fly on any domestic or international flights without a male relative,” the letter stated.

Two journey brokers AFP contacted additionally confirmed they’d stopped issuing tickets to solo girls travellers.

“Some women who were travelling without a male relative were not allowed to board a Kam Air flight from Kabul to Islamabad on Friday,” a passenger who was on that flight advised AFP.

An Afghan girl with a US passport was additionally not allowed to board a flight to Dubai on Friday, one other supply stated.

The Taliban have already banned inter-city highway journeys for ladies travelling alone, however till now they have been free to take flights.

The Taliban have promised a softer model of the tough Islamist rule that characterised their first stint in energy from 1996 to 2001.

But since August, they’ve rolled again 20 years of positive factors made by Afghanistan’s girls. 

Women have been squeezed out of most authorities jobs and secondary faculty training, in addition to ordered to decorate based on a strict interpretation of the Koran.

Tens of hundreds of ladies flocked again to class on Wednesday after faculties reopened, however officers ordered them dwelling simply hours into the day, triggering worldwide outrage.

Authorities have nonetheless not given a transparent motive for the coverage reversal.

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