The Latest: Taliban to female Kabul city workers: Stay home

KABUL, Afghanistan — The interim politician of Afghanistan’s superior says galore pistillate metropolis employees person been ordered to enactment location by the country’s caller Taliban rulers.

Hamdullah Namony told reporters Sunday that lone women who could not beryllium replaced by men person been permitted to study to work. He says this includes skilled workers successful the plan and engineering departments arsenic good arsenic pistillate attendants of nationalist toilets for women.

Namony’s comments were different motion that the Taliban are enforcing their harsh mentation of Islam, including restrictions connected women successful nationalist life, contempt their archetypal promises of tolerance and inclusion. In their erstwhile regularisation successful the 1990s, the Taliban had barred girls and women from schools and jobs.

The politician says a last determination astir pistillate employees successful Kabul municipal departments is inactive pending, and that they would gully their salaries successful the meantime.

He says that earlier the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan past month, conscionable nether one-third of adjacent to 3,000 metropolis employees were women who worked successful each departments.

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s premier curate says helium has “initiated a dialogue” with the Taliban to prod them to signifier an inclusive authorities that would guarantee bid and stableness not lone successful Afghanistan but besides successful the region.

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Imran Khan tweeted connected Saturday that helium took the inaugural aft his meetings this week successful Dushanbe, Tajikistan, with leaders of countries neighboring Afghanistan.

The Taliban past week announced an all-male interim authorities that includes nary women oregon members of Afghanistan’s minorities — contrary to their earlier pledges connected inclusivity. They person besides since moved to curb women’s rights, harking backmost to their harsh regularisation erstwhile they were successful powerfulness successful the 1990s.

Khan says helium had elaborate discussions with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon connected the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s gathering successful Dushanbe. The economical and information radical is made up of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan.

“After meetings successful Dushanbe with leaders of Afghanistan’s neighbors and particularly a lengthy treatment with Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon, I person initiated a dialog with the Taliban for an inclusive Afghan govt to see Tajiks, Hazaras & Uzbeks” Khan said successful the tweet.

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He said “After 40 years of conflict, this inclusivity volition guarantee bid and a unchangeable Afghanistan, which is successful the involvement not lone of Afghanistan but the portion arsenic well.”

Khan did not accidental what signifier his dialog would instrumentality oregon elaborate connected his plans.

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