Women’s anchors should cover faces! Threat by Taliban

 

The previous Sunday, most of the national tv reporters and anchors are have to cover their faces when appear on-screen on the order of the Taliban.

 

receiving the new order, most of the anchors are resistant and not willing to do it, but the employer forces them to do it under severe threat. One of the official TV anchors said this may be the tip of the ice burg along with the orders from the Taliban regime.

In addition, when the Taliban come into power they order that on the streets women should wear hijab, but now they told that all national  TV channels should force their employees to wear hijab or cover their faces during the bulletins or any other program.

Initially that this order is overruled by the many segments of society, but the officials ordered that anyone who does not follow the Islamic law face the punishment, and loss their job. Human rights activists said that it is clear sabotage of women’s rights and freedom of speech.

Sonia Niazi one of the top anchors in Tolo news said that as resistance and protest she wears a mask instead of a hijab, she also adds that in the next step female anchor may disappear completely from the TV frame.

Whereas most Islamic clerics said that women are not forced to cover their faces in public, despite Taliban officials becoming more and more strict as they gain more and more power, by forcing separate classes, parks, and office time for women.