Taliban's gender segregation diktat to apply even to husband-wife

The Taliban have implemented a new gender segregation diktat in Herat province, which bars men and women to dine together at restaurants.

Now, women will not be permitted to dine with their husbands or other male family members at restaurants.

The rule has been brought in by the Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which earlier had issued a directive requiring Herat's public parks to be gender-segregated, with men and women authorised access on specific days.

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Women are allowed in parks on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and the remaining days are 'set aside for men to visit for leisure and exercise.

Foreign ministers of western countries have expressed disappointment about the increasing restrictions on women imposed by the Taliban.