Afghan women cannot pray loudly or recite in front of other women, says Taliban minister

A Taliban authorities curate says Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly aliases reciting nan Quran successful beforehand of different women

ISLAMABAD -- Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly aliases reciting nan Quran successful beforehand of different women, according to a Taliban authorities minister.

It’s nan latest regularisation connected women pursuing morality laws that prohibition them from raising their sound and baring their faces extracurricular nan home. They are already excluded from acquisition aft sixth grade, galore nationalist spaces and astir jobs.

Nobody from nan Vice and Virtue Ministry was instantly disposable Wednesday to explain nan official’s remarks aliases corroborate if nan prohibition would besides go portion of nan morality laws.

During an arena successful eastbound Logar state connected Sunday, Vice and Virtue Minister Khalid Hanafi said: “It is prohibited for a grown female to singing Quranic verses aliases execute recitations successful beforehand of different grown woman. Even chants of takbir (Allahu Akbar) are not permitted.”

He said that uttering akin expressions for illustration “subhanallah,” different connection cardinal to nan Islamic faith, was besides not allowed. A female was not permitted to execute nan telephone to prayer, he told nan gathering. “So, location is surely nary support for singing.”

Audio of Hanafi’s remarks was shared connected nan ministry’s societal media platforms but was later deleted.

The ministry said Tuesday that a nationwide consciousness programme astir nan laws is underway involving ministry officials astatine provincial and territory levels.

“Organising specified programs will lend to shaping nationalist cognition and expanding consciousness of divine rulings,” nan ministry added.

Afghan provinces are already barring nan media from showing images of surviving things, different arguable and wide criticized characteristic of nan morality laws.

The Taliban group up nan ministry for nan " propagation of kindness and nan prevention of vice” aft seizing powerfulness successful 2021.

Since then, nan ministry has enforced decrees issued by nan Taliban leadership that person a disproportionate effect connected women and girls, for illustration dress codes, segregated acquisition and employment, and having a antheral guardian erstwhile they travel.