Anyone violating the rule will be punished, the Taliban’s religious police have said. Some barbers in the capital Kabul said that they have also received similar orders. The instructions suggest a return to the strict rulings of the group’s past tenure in power, despite promises of a milder form of government.
In a notice posted on salons in Helmand province, Taliban officers warned that hairdressers must follow Sharia law for haircuts and beards, media reported. “No one has a right to complain,” the notice. “The fighters keep coming and ordering us to stop trimming beards,” one barber in Kabul said media.
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“One of them told me they can send undercover inspectors to catch us.” Another hairdresser, who runs one of the city’s biggest salons, said he received a call from someone claiming to be a government official. They instructed him to “stop following American styles” and not to shave or trim anyone’s beard.
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During the Taliban’s first stint in power from 1996 to 2001, the hardline Islamists banned flamboyant hairstyles and insisted that men grow beards. But since then, clean-shaven looks have become popular and many Afghan men have gone to salons for fashionable cuts.
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