Women should give birth, they can’t be ministers: Taliban diktat

Sept 10: In a televised interview to Tolo News, Taliban spokesperson Sayed Zekrullah Hashimi said that the women can’t be ministers, they should give birth. He went on to say that it is like you put something on her neck that she can’t carry.

On women protesting on Afghanistan streets, Zekrullah Hashimi said that “four women protesting in the streets, they do not represent the women of Afghanistan”. “The women of Afghanistan are those who give birth to the people of Afghanistan, educating them on Islamic ethics,” he said.

While Afghan women protesting the all-male Afghanistan’s new interim government in Kabul were driven away by the Taliban, local media reported. The Taliban used whips and sticks against the women protesters in the crackdown on dissent, CNN reported.

The Taliban have declared the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and  that Sharia law would be in force. The outfit has imposed strict restrictions on women, banning them from working outside the home or leaving the house without a male guardian, no co-education system among others.