KABUL, March 26 — Until Taliban authorities took power in Afghanistan, women like Fatima were able to freely sell their hair to be made into wigs, bringing in crucial cash. But...
An Afghan shopkeeper arranging women’s wigs as he waits for customers at his shop in Kabul. — AFP picKABUL, March 26 — Until Taliban authorities took power in Afghanistan, women like Fatima were able to freely sell their hair to be made into wigs, bringing in crucial cash.
Buyers who want to export the locks for wig production abroad “would knock on our doors to collect” the hair, she said. They banned women and girls from universities and schools, effectively strangling their employment hopes.Last year, Taliban authorities imposed vice and virtue laws regulating everyday life for men and women, including banning sales of “any part of the human body” including hair.Hair collected from salon floors to be made into wigs is a source of precious income for some Afghan women. — AFP pic
Hair sales are so sensitive that the ministry which handles morality issues burned nearly a ton of human strands in Kabul province in January.The restrictions have not deterred Fatima, however. Before the 2021 takeover, the 43-year-old widowed hairdresser used to give crop cuts to five to six clients every day.
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