KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the 'propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice' in the building that once housed the Women's Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank staffers on Saturday as part of the forced move.
It was the latest troubling sign that the Taliban are restricting women's rights as they settle into government, just a month since they overran the capital of Kabul. During their previous rule of Afghanistan in the 1990s, the Taliban had denied girls and women the right to education and barred them from public life.
NEW MINISTRY An Afghan man walks past the former Women’s Affairs Ministry building in Kabul,
Afghanistan on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021. Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the ‘propagation
of virtue and the prevention of vice’ in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry, escorting out
World Bank staffers on Saturday as part of the forced move. AP PHOTO
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