The Guardian has reported that the Taliban have ordered all women’s beauty salons that continue to operate secretly after the official ban to be identified and shut down.

Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban’s supreme leader, has banned the writing of love poems and the description of girls and boys in poetry, warning that violators will be punished.

Richard Bennett, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, has expressed concern over the ongoing deportation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan and called for an immediate halt to the process.

Local sources in Herat city told the media that Taliban morality police raided several private educational centers on Saturday morning (August 30) and forcibly expelled girls from classrooms.