Taliban: No official statement has been issued in Helmand about not Shaving the beard
The Taliban said the notice, which was issued in Helmand province under the name of Damar Bal Ma'ruf and Nahi An Al Munkar, was not from an official address, and permission was not sought for its publication.
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An announcement, apparently issued by Helmand's Da'wah Guidance, Recruitment and Recruitment Commission, warned hairdressers in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, not to shave or shave their beards. and not Sings songs in salmon.
The warning warns that anyone violating these recommendations will be dealt with in accordance with Sharia law and has no right to complain.
The notice was signed by two people.
Both of them are mentioned as the leaders of Helmand's da'wah, guidance, attraction, and commandment and enjoining the good and forbidding the evil.
Ahmadullah Wasiq, a deputy spokesman for the Taliban's cultural commission, also posted a picture of the announcement on Twitter, saying it had not been released from an official address.
Mr. Wasiq told the MST News: "Officials at the Ministry of Enforcement and Prohibition of Evil say that the announcement was not made from an official address. Permission has also been granted to publish the notice. "
But in the capital, Kabul, some salon owners say they have received similar orders and warnings. A Salman in Kabul said militants were entering their salons and preventing people from shaving.
He says he has been told that secret observers can also be sent to arrest him in case of violation.
The owner of another large salon said on the phone that a self-proclaimed government official had ordered them to refrain from shaving or trimming people's beards and not following American customs.
A Salman from Herat said he had not been told to shave, but he had given up because he said people did not want to shave.
He says people don't want to be targeted by the Taliban on the streets but want to be like them until they join them.
The Taliban publicly hanged the bodies of four people they said were kidnappers and killed in a clash with the Taliban in Herat yesterday.
Although the Taliban have spoken of softness and a change in their behavior, the recent rise to power of the Taliban has raised concerns about such harsh measures and some of the killings.
These concerns were heightened after Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, the justice minister during the Taliban's early rule and the head of Amr al-Ma'ruf and Nahi al-Munkar, who is now the head of prisons, said in recent remarks that harsh punishments such as visas and Body amputation is a necessary punishment.
He said Taliban ministers were now debating whether the punishments would be carried out in public and that they would formulate a "policy" in this regard.
