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September 19, 2021 The Taliban "found it necessary to prevent women from working for a while", explained the new mayor of the capital Kabul, Hamdullah Nomany. "For the positions that men can fill, we have told women to stay home until the situation is normalized. Their salaries will be paid."



With these words, public employees today were invited not to go to work in Kabul, in what appears to be yet another gender discrimination of the Taliban, veiled by security measures. In Kabul, one third of the 3,000 municipal employees are women.



Exceptions for women that cannot be replaced by men

The mayor of Kabul, in his first press conference since being appointed by the Taliban, explained that exceptions have been made for women who cannot be replaced by men, including some employed in the design and engineering departments and bathroom attendants. public for women. The mayor did not specify how many female employees were forced to stay at home.



Women: no to the "Ministry for the Diffusion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice"

Also today a dozen women demonstrated in Kabul in front of what was the Ministry for Women's Affairs, to protest against the decision of the Taliban government to transform it into "Ministry for the Diffusion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice", and to claim their right to work and education. "A society in which women are not active is a dead society," read one of the signs displayed during the protest reported by local broadcasters. Meanwhile, secondary schools reopened yesterday. Again only for male students and teachers.



Humanitarian flight

The fourth charter flight to take civilians out of Afghanistan has started today, since the last US troops left on 31 August. The plane, a Qatar Boeing 777, took off for Doha with 236 passengers on board, including Afghans, Americans and Europeans. According to Qatar's Deputy Foreign Minister Lolwah Rashid Al Khater, there are also Italian citizens on board, as well as people from Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Canada, France, Great Britain, Finland and the Netherlands.



Attacks

In this climate, a truck carrying Taliban fighters was blown up in Jalalabad, in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan. According to local media, many people who were on board were transported to the hospital. There are no details of the dynamics, nor is there an accurate picture of the victims. Yesterday a triple attack in the same area against the Taliban killed at least two people and injured another 19. The attacks, so far not claimed, are the first since the Americans left the country. In the Jalalabad area, Isis-K, a rival of the Taliban, is active and has claimed responsibility for the bloody attack on the Kabul airport that killed over 100 people on 26 August.