Local sources in Kandahar province report that the Taliban have prohibited male tailors in the provincial capital from sewing clothes for women, both in shops and private homes.
According to one source, who requested anonymity, officials from the Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice visited Rangrezano Street and several other tailoring hubs on Sunday. They ordered male tailors, who previously stitched clothes for both men and women, to stop sewing women’s garments altogether.
The source added that last week around ten tailors were arrested by the Taliban for continuing their work on women’s clothing. Since then, all tailoring shops that once served women have been completely shut down.
Tailors reportedly asked the Taliban’s virtue ministry to provide a religious justification for the ban, but officials allegedly threatened them with severe punishment if they made such a request again.
