Taliban verbal directive not to issue driving licenses to women

 

Girls not yet allowed in secondary schools in Afghanistan

The Afghan Taliban have barred driving instructors from issuing driving licenses to women. 

According to the French news agency AFP, it is common for women to drive in the northwestern Afghan city of Herat, but the Taliban's new Following the instructions, female drivers have become a source of concern. 

Jan Agha Achakzai, head of the Traffic Management Institute, the supervising department of Herat's driving schools, said: We have been told not to give driving lessons and not to issue licenses. 

It is believed that the Taliban, who took control of Afghanistan in August last year, had promised that they This time around, he will bring soft policies to his tenure between 1996 and 2001. 

But they have deprived the Afghan people, especially women and girls, of many rights. 

In Afghanistan, girls have not yet been allowed to attend secondary school, while women have been excluded from various government jobs. 

"I told Talib (the guard) that I would rather drive my own car than sit with a taxi driver," Waima told. 

"I want my family On the other hand, Naeem-ul-Haq Haqqani, head of the provincial information and culture department, said: Not released.


It should be noted that the Taliban often prefer to issue verbal orders rather than written ones. 

Angel Yaqubi, a woman who has been driving in Herat for many years, said, “It is not written on any vehicle that only men can drive it. 

In fact, it is safer for women to drive their own cars.

”Zainab Mohseni, a 26-year-old woman, recently applied for a driver's license. have been.'

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