Women's job is just to have children, not a minister: Taliban

The Taliban mentality began to emerge in Afghanistan

Picture of Afghanistan's central bank governor with a machine gun on the table goes viral

Kabul: What was feared in Afghanistan is finally coming true. While women have been protesting for participation in the government since the formation of the Taliban's interim government, local media have quoted a Taliban spokesman as claiming that women will never be made ministers in the Taliban government. Their job is just to have children.

After capturing Kabul in Afghanistan, the Taliban, which has been claiming to form an inclusive government and give women enough leeway, has begun to come out against their radical mentality with the announcement of an interim government.

As hundreds of women demonstrate in Kabul for participation in an inclusive government under the Taliban regime, Tolo News, a local media outlet, quoted a Taliban spokesman as saying, "A woman cannot be a minister. Women don’t have to be in cabinets.

The job of women is just to have children. The women protesting in Kabul do not represent the whole of Afghanistan. As soon as the Taliban regime came to power in Afghanistan, fear spread among the common people.

Women who have seen the Taliban regime two decades ago were particularly horrified. On the other hand, images going viral on social media of guns being seen on tables in government offices under the Taliban regime seem to be becoming a reality in Afghanistan.

A picture of Haji Mohammad Idris, the gun-wielding governor of the Central Bank of Afghanistan (DAB), which is the Reserve Bank of India, is going viral. He is sitting in the office running a laptop and also has a machine gun placed on the table next to him.