Kabul: The Taliban has banned women from using gyms in Afghanistan, an official announced Thursday, since the religious group took power more than a year ago to restrict women's freedoms and rights. Latest order issued.

The Taliban took over the country last year in August 2021. Despite his early promises to the nation, he has barred girls from attending middle and high school, restricted women in most occupations, and mandated that they dress head-to-toe in public.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Virtue and Vice claimed that the ban was being enforced because people were disobeying orders requiring gender segregation and because women were not wearing the required hijab, or head covering. Parks are also off limits for women.

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A ban on the use of women's parks and gyms went into effect this week.

Deputy and Taliban-designated spokesman for the Ministry of Virtue, Mohammad Akef Mohajjar, claimed that the organization had "tried its best" over the past 15 months to prevent women from using parks and gyms, with separate weeks for men. set different days. and enforcing female access, or gender segregation. However, Mahzar lamented, "Unfortunately, orders were not followed and laws were broken, and we had to close parks and gyms for women."

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“Unfortunately, the hijab was not seen in most of the parks where we saw men and women together. So, we had to make another choice, and for the time being we ordered that all parks and gyms be closed to women.

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He said Taliban teams would start looking at businesses to see if women were still using them.
The Taliban-led government, which struggles to rule and is still internationally isolated, is dominated by hardliners. As foreign aid dwindles, the economic downturn has pushed millions more Afghans into poverty and hunger.