social media news-Taliban replace ministry for women with one restricting them
Taliban replace ministry for women with one restricting them By KATHY GANNON today 1 of 4 An Afghan man walks past the former Women's Affairs Ministry building in Kabul, Afghanistan, 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 Saturday as part of the forced move. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — 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 Saturday as part of the forced move. It’s 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. In their first period of rule in the 1990s, the Taliban had den...