Taliban orders airlines in Afghanistan to stop unaccompanied women from flying

Kabul: The Taliban have ordered airlines in Afghanistan to stop women from boarding flights unless accompanied by a male relative. The latest restriction on women follows last week's shutdown of all girls' secondary schools just hours after they were allowed to reopen for the first time since the hardline Islamists seized power in August.

Two officials from Afghanistan's Ariana Afghan



airline and Kam Air said that the Taliban had ordered them to stop boarding women if they were travelling alone.

Since the Taliban's return to power, many curbs on women's freedoms have been reintroduced. These restrictions often implemented locally at the whim of regional officials from the Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.