While Afghanistan undergoes winter rigors, women may not be able to meet the most basic conditions of hygiene.
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The Taliban have just taken a new measure to restrict a little more space to women in their daily lives: the local branch of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue of the Province of Balkh (North) reported At the beginning of the week that the public baths would now be closed to the Afghans. The measure would be limited for the moment to this province and that of Herat, located in the West. But this new provision may extend to other parts of Afghanistan.
The measurement only concerns public baths, private hammams being still open to Afghans. But the representative of this ministry who decides what is Islamically correct or not said that clients will have to wear the sail in the baths …
The new regulation is all the more hard as Afghanistan has entered the entrances of winter and that many people do not have any running water or ways to buy firewood. It will therefore be the women who will make the costs of a measure that will make them difficult to meet elementary hygiene conditions.
Call for help
Men are not forgotten by Talibane Pudibondie and will be subject to stricter imperatives in public baths: According to Rumi Nematullah Abu Tariq, advisor for religious affairs of the province of Balkh, cited by the agency of Pakistani Press IG News, the “intimate parts of men must be hidden in the hammams”. Being heard, he said, that the said “games” go “from the bottom of the navel to the underside of the knee”.
While the mullahs focus on these essential debates for life in society, the food situation is deteriorating throughout the country: the UN predicts that “97% of Afghans” may live “below the poverty line of ‘here the middle of the year “. According to the International Rescue Committee NGO, more than half of the 39 million Afghans will face in 2022 “serious food problems”, nine million of them ending up under “close to famine” conditions.
The situation is so alarming that Deputy Prime Minister Taliban, the Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, called for help the international community in a statement issued on Friday, January 7: “The world must support the Afghan people without any political party and carry out its humanitarian obligations. “