Trouble Looms For Afganistan Women As Talibans Shut Down Women’s Ministry, replace With ‘Morality Police’

The women’s affairs ministry will no longer exist in Afghanistan as Talibans shut down the ministry and replaced it with the ‘Morality police’.

The Morality Police is a department that enforced strict religious doctrines in the country before the US invasion in 2001.

According to a footage on social media posted on Friday, September 17, shows the sign at the ministry was removed, and replace with the sign for the ministry of ‘virtue and vice’ also known as ‘morality’.

Women employees who were urging the Taliban to let them return to work was also captured outside the offices,

It would be recalled that In the last 20 years Afghan women have gained a number of basic rights, but that progress is being halted by the Taliban’s new all-male interim government.

Human rights groups have criticised the virtue and vice ministry for silencing dissent, violently enforcing restrictions on citizens especially women and girls but the Taliban say the institution is important.

“The main purpose is to serve Islam. Therefore, it is compulsory to have [a] Ministry of Vice and Virtue,” a Taliban member, Mohammad Yousuf, told the New York Post.