Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen refuted all the rumours regarding theTaliban ban on men and women from dining out together and visiting parks atthe same time.
Taking to Twitter, Shaheen, quoting the Ministry of Promotion of Virtues,said that the reports of banning men and women from dining together arerumours and not true but “part of baseless propaganda.”
“Ministry of Promotion of Virtues says: Some media outlets have reportedthat the Ministry has put restrictions on families to have lunch or dinnertogether with female family members in restaurants and hotels. These arerumours and are not true but part of baseless propaganda,” he wrote.
Yesterday, it was reported that Taliban authorities have banned men andwomen from dining out together and visiting parks at the same time in thewestern Afghan city of Herat.
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Riazullah Seerat, a Taliban official at the Ministry for Promotion ofVirtue and Prevention of Vice in Herat, had said authorities “haveinstructed that men and women be segregated in restaurants”.
