Taliban ban women visits to picnic spots KABUL: Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia Friday ordered Afghan women not to visit picnic spots or tourists resorts across the country, Taliban-run radio reported. "The Afghan women cannot go to these places," Radio Shariat said. The broadcast quoted the regime's Vice and Virtue Ministry as saying "some women are seen going to resorts as men, that's forbidden." It said the ministry's personnel, known as religious police, would be patrolling the resorts to enforce the ban. The brief announcement gave no reason for the ban nor did it specify punishment for offenders. The fundamentalist Islamic militia controlling most of Afghanistan has enforced strict interpretation of Sharia law in the area under its control. It has barred women from education and work outside their homes and calls for segregation of unrelated men and women. Residents say women are rarely seen at parks or picnic places since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996. (AFP)
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