Taliban ordered the closures of beauty salons, Kabul, Afghanistan - 04 Jul 2023
A staff prepares to leave after closing a beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, 04 July 2023. The Taliban government has in a recent decree imposed a ban on women's beauty salons in Afghanistan, that will effect some 12,000 hairdressing salons according to the Kabul Chamber Of Craftsmen. The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice on 04 July confirmed that beauty parlors were ordered to wind down their businesses within a month in Kabul and all 33 Afghan provinces.