Mohammad Sadiq Hakif Mahajer, spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, told CNN that the new law — forbidding women from the solo, long-distance road trips — has been instated. He said it was designed to prevent women from coming to any harm or “disturbance.”
The new rules also call on drivers not to allow women without veils to sit in their cars, and say drivers “should stop their cars in a proper place at the time of prayers to perform prayer.”
The Taliban also imposed new rules on music and alcohol; drivers are barred from playing music in cars, and “using or transferring intoxicating things in the car is strictly prohibited,” the rules say.
Since seizing power in August, the Taliban has tried to present a moderate face when it comes to the rights of women as it attempts to restore frozen foreign aid.
Restrictive rules like a stay-at-home order, which was touted as being temporary, have dragged on. Most women still can’t go back to work, having been barred from an array of jobs, including in government and entertainment television.
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