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 * Retrictions on Women **
 * 1- Complete ban on women's work outside the home, which also applies to female teachers, engineers and most professionals. Only a few female doctors and nurses are allowed to work in some hospitals in Kabul. **
 * 2- Complete ban on women's activity outside the home unless accompanied by a //mahram// (close male relative such as a father, brother or husband). **
 * 3- Ban on women dealing with male shopkeepers. **
 * 4- Ban on women being treated by male doctors. **
 * 5- Ban on women studying at schools, universities or any other educational institution. (Taliban have converted girls' schools into religious seminaries.) **
 * 6- Requirement that women wear a long veil (Burqa), which covers them from head to toe. **
 * 7- Whipping, beating and verbal abuse of women not clothed in accordance with Taliban rules, or of women unaccompanied by a mahram. **
 * 8- Whipping of women in public for having non-covered ankles. **
 * 9- Public stoning of women accused of having sex outside marriage. (A number of lovers are stoned to death under this rule). **
 * 10- Ban on the use of cosmetics. (Many women with painted nails have had fingers cut off). **
 * 11- Ban on women talking or shaking hands with non-//mahram// males. **
 * 12- Ban on women laughing loudly. (No stranger should hear a woman's voice). **
 * 13- Ban on women wearing high heel shoes, which would produce sound while walking. (A man must not hear a woman's footsteps.) **
 * 14- Ban on women riding in a taxi without a mahram. **
 * 15- Ban on women's presence in radio, television or public gatherings of any kind. **
 * 16- Ban on women playing sports or entering a sport center or club. **
 * 17- Ban on women riding bicycles or motorcycles, even with their //mahrams//. **
 * 18- Ban on women's wearing brightly colored clothes. In Taliban terms, these are "sexually attracting colors." **
 * 19- Ban on women gathering for festive occasions such as the Eids, or for any recreational purpose. **
 * 20- Ban on women washing clothes next to rivers or in a public place. **
 * 21- Modification of all place names including the word "women." For example, "women's garden" has been renamed "spring garden". **
 * 22- Ban on women appearing on the balconies of their apartments or houses. **
 * 23- Compulsory painting of all windows, so women can not be seen from outside their homes. **
 * 24- Ban on male tailors taking women's measurements or sewing women's clothes. **
 * 25- Ban on female public baths. **
 * 26- Ban on males and females traveling on the same bus. Public buses have now been designated "males only" (or "females only"). **
 * 27- Ban on flared (wide) pant-legs, even under a burqa. **
 * 28- Ban on the photographing or filming of women. **
 * 29- Ban on women's pictures printed in newspapers and books, or hung on the walls of houses and shops. **
 * Restrictions on Everyone **
 * - Banned listening to music, not only for women but men as well. **
 * - Banned the watching of movies, television and videos, for everyone. **
 * - Banned celebrating the traditional new year (Nowroz) on March 21. The Taliban has proclaimed the holiday un-Islamic. **
 * - Disavowed Labor Day (May 1st), because it is deemed a "communist" holiday. **
 * - Ordered that all people with non-Islamic names change them to Islamic ones. **
 * - Forced haircuts upon Afghan youth. **
 * - Ordered that men wear Islamic clothes and a cap. **
 * - Ordered that men not shave or trim their beards, which should grow long enough to protrude from a fist clasped at the point of the chin. **
 * - Ordered that all people attend prayers in mosques five times daily. **
 * - Banned the keeping of pigeons and playing with the birds, describing it as un-Islamic. The violators will be imprisoned and the birds shall be killed. The kite flying has also been stopped. **
 * - Ordered all onlookers, while encouraging the sportsmen, to chant Allah-o-Akbar (God is great) and refrain from clapping. **
 * - Ban on certain games including kite flying which is "un-Islamic" according to Taliban. **
 * - Anyone who carries objectionable literature will be executed. **
 * - Anyone who converts from Islam to any other religion will be executed. **
 * - All boy students must wear turbans. They say "No turban, no education". **
 * - Non-Muslim minorities must distinct badge or stitch a yellow cloth onto their dress to be differentiated from the majority Muslim population. Just like what did Nazis with Jews. **
 * - Banned the use of the internet by both ordinary Afghans and foreigners. **
 * ** Many of the anti-women rules that Taliban practiced were first of all the rules formulated and practiced by Rabbani-Massoud government after they came to power in 1992 ** ||


 * Conditions of wearing veil: **

** 1. The veil must cover the whole body. 2. Women's clothes must not be thin. 3. Women's clothes must not be decorated and colourful. 4. Women's clothes must not be narrow and tight to prevent the seditious limbs from being noticed. The veil must not be thin. 5. Women must not perfume themselves. If a perfumed woman passes by a crowd of men, she is considered to be an adulteress. 6. Women's clothes must not resemble men's clothes.

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1. They must not perfume themselves. 2. They must not wear adorning clothes. 3. They must not wear thin clothes. 4. They must not wear narrow and tight clothes. 5. They must cover their entire bodies. 6. Their clothes must not resemble men's clothes. 7. Muslim women's clothes must not resemble non-Muslim women's clothes. 8. Their foot ornaments must not produce sound. 9. They must not wear sound-producing garments. 10. They must not walk in the middle of streets. 11. They must not go out of their houses without their husband's permission. 12. They must not talk to strange men. 13. If it is necessary to talk, they must talk in a low voice and without laughter. 14. They must not look at strangers. 15. They must not mix with strangers." ** § ** Taliban have banned all sports played between late afternoon and evening to avoid disturbance prayers, Taliban-controlled radio Shariat has reported. **  §  ** Games at playgrounds from Asar and Maghreb could disturb prayers, said the Taliban mouthpiece. **  §  ** Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar had ordered that no sports should be held from the time of the muezzin's call for Asar prayers until the end of Maghreb prayers. **  Taliban Punishment  ** 1.  **** Taliban militia mete out punishment for violations of these rules on the spot. For example, women have been beaten on the street if an inch of ankle shows under their burqa. They have been beaten if they are found to move about without an explanation acceptable to the Taliban. They have been beaten if they make noise when they walk. ** **2. Acceptable punishments for infractions are public hangings, amputation of limbs, and stonings.** = Mazar-I-Sharif Under Taliban Control =
 * Sports Under the Taliban **
 * Under Dostum's Uzbek //Jumbesh-e Melli// militia from the early 1990s to early 1997, Mazar was an oasis of peace during the civil war, and as the rest of the country disintegrated and was slowly taken over by the Taliban, Dostum strengthened political ties with the newly independent central Asian states and Turkey, printed his own currency and established his own airline. This peace was shattered in May 1997, when he was betrayed by one of his generals, Abdul Malik, and he fled Mazar as the Taliban were getting ready to ** **take the city.** ** Between May and July 1997, the Taliban unsuccessfully attempted to take Mazar, leading to approximately 2,500 Taliban soldiers being massacred by Abdul Malik and his Shia followers. In retaliation for this incident, the Taliban on August 8, 1998, reportedly returned and led a six-day killing frenzy of Hazaras and other local people. Soon after, the city was occupied and taken over by the Taliban. It was this capture of Mazar that prompted Pakistan's recognition of the Taliban regime. **
 * The killings of Hazara men and boys appear to have been carried out largely in reprisal for the killing of several thousand Taliban soldiers after a failed attempt by the Taliban to take the city from May to July 1997. Of these, some 2,000 were reportedly summarily executed after capture in Shiberghan and other areas, including areas to which prisoners from Mazar were deported. A number of neighborhoods targeted for searches in Mazar had been among those where resistance by Hizb-i Wahdat troops against the Taliban had begun at that time. Witnesses stated that Taliban conducting the house-to-house searches accused Hazaras in general of killing Taliban troops in 1997 and did not distinguish between combatants and noncombatants. In speeches given at mosques throughout Mazar, the Taliban governor, Mulla Manon Niazi, also blamed Hazaras for the 1997 killings. **
 * The Hazaras were also singled out because they are Shi'a. The Taliban are Sunni Muslims and followers of a strict conservative sect that considers the Shi'a to be infidels. During their search operations in Mazar, the Taliban ordered some residents to prove that they were not Shi'a by reciting Sunni prayers. Over a period of several weeks, Governor Niazi made inflammatory speeches against Hazaras in which he ordered them to become Sunnis, leave Afghanistan, or risk being killed. **

Taliban Destroys Buddha Statues
**Taliban Minister of Information and Culture Qudratullah Jamal told AFP the destruction of scores of pre-Islamic figures, designed to stop the worshipping of "false idols," had begun throughout the country.**  **Personal Experiences**
 * 1. **** According to one report, a women struggling with two small children and groceries in her arms was reportedly beaten by the Taliban with a car antenna because she had let her face covering slip a fraction.

sources: http://www.rawa.org/rules.htm just about all of the information was found on the rawa website: rawa.org

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