Will Establish For Women Potent & Effective Administration Under Sharia Law: Taliban

90 percent of the ministry’s employees during the former government were women many of them were sole breadwinners of their families. 

Women's Ministry has been replaced with the Taliban’s moral wing; ‘Ministries of Prayer and Guidance and the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’.

New Delhi: The Taliban had that they will establish for women a potent and effective administration under the Sharia law after the exclusion and closure of women’s ministry prompted reactions in Afghanistan, reported The Khaama Press News Agency.

90 percent of the ministry’s employees during the former government were women many of them were sole breadwinners of their families. 

Reuters reported on Friday that a number of the employees gathered in front of the ministry’s building to resume their work, but the ministry does not exist anymore.

The deputy minister of information and culture and the spokesperson of the Taliban Zabiullah Mujahid.

According to reports, the Ministry has been replaced with the Taliban’s moral wing; ‘Ministries of Prayer and Guidance and the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’.

Many activists have also pointed out that the removal of women’s ministry is contradictory to the assurances given by the Taliban regarding women’s freedom in the country.

“Limiting the rights of the women of Afghanistan and marginalizing them, in fact, does not lead to a new Afghanistan with a better situation,” said Mariam Maroof Arvin, a women's rights activist in a report by Tolo News.

Meanwhile, the United Nations High Commissioner Filippo Grandi, urged countries to accept Afghan refugees and has raised concern about their welfare saying that Afghans displaced by war and the Taliban takeover of the country are in urgent need of medicine, shelter, and other essentials ahead of winter.