THE LATEST: Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have replaced the women’s ministry with an all-male “vice and virtue ministry' tasked with enforcing the group’s rigid interpretation of Islam.
JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Witnesses say a series of three explosions that targeted Taliban vehicles in the capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province has left at least three people dead and 20 wounded.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on Saturday in Jalalabad, but the increasingly violent Islamic State affiliate is headquartered in eastern Afghanistan. The militant group is a rival of the Taliban, Afghanistan’s new rulers.Also on Saturday, a sticky bomb exploded in the capital of Kabul wounding two people, said police officials. The target of the Kabul bombing was not immediately clear.
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 denied girls and women the right to education and barred them from public life.
In Kabul, a new sign was up outside the women’s affairs ministry, announcing it was now the “Ministry for Preaching and Guidance and the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.” Staff of the World Bank’s $100 million Women’s Economic Empowerment and Rural Development Program, which was run out of the Women’s Affairs Ministry, were escorted off the grounds Saturday, said program member Sharif Akhtar, who was among those being removed.
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