The presenters of the main Afghan television channels have gone on the air on Sunday covering their faces, complying with the order of the Taliban a day after.
The Taliban have ordered airlines in Afghanistan to stop women from boarding flights unless accompanied by a male relative, aviation officials said.
The latest restriction on women follows Wednesday’s shutdown of all girls’ secondary schools just hours after they were allowed to reopen for the first time since the hardline Islamists seized power in August last year.
Two officials from Afghanistan’s Ariana Afghan Airlines and Kam Air late on Sunday said that the Taliban had ordered them to stop boarding women if they were traveling alone.
The decision was taken after a meeting on Thursday between representatives of the Taliban, the two airlines
The German government flew 345 people from Kabul to Doha on Wednesday, according to the Foreign Office. Meanwhile, diplomatic talks with the Taliban continue.
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities on Sunday issued a new “religious guideline” that called on the country’s television channels to stop showing dramas and soap operas featuring female actors.
In the first such directive to Afghan media issued by the Afghan Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Taliban also called on female television journalists to wear hijabs while presenting their reports.
The ministry also asked the channels not to air films or programs in which the Prophet Mohammed or other revered figures are shown.
It called for the banning of films or programs that were against Islamic and Afghan values.
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