In yet another blow to women in Afghanistan, the Taliban on Saturday banned them from visiting the breathtakingly beautiful Band-e-Amir in central Bamiyan province, stating that they were not observing hijab.
Addressing a ceremony in Bamiyan, the Taliban’s acting minister of Vice and Virtue Mohammad Khalid Hanafi asked Taliban security agencies, religious clerics, and elders to prevent women and girls from visiting the national park.
