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Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a Saudi humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 25, 2022. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Saturday, May 7, ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public, a sharp hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was bound to further complicate Taliban dealings with an already distrustful international community. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
(MANEND NEWS): Afghan Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has issued an edict refraining officials of the interim government from marrying more than once.
“A new decree of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada instructed the members of the Islamic Emirate to avoid two, three or four marriages, which are not necessary and expensive,” read an official statement shared by Afghanistan’s ToloNews on Friday.
In a similar decree in January last year, the Taliban before coming into power restrained leaders and commanders from taking multiple wives, saying the practice invited “criticism from our enemies”.
Voice of America quoting sources had reported that the directive was in response to “many complaints”. Some Taliban officials have approached their superiors for help in paying dowry.
“Up to 2 million Afghanis (nearly $26,000) are paid for dowry in some parts of Afghanistan and the Taliban officials would seek this money for their second marriage,” the source said.
In December 2021, the Taliban-led government released a decree on women’s rights which said women should not be considered “property” and must consent to marriage.
“A woman is not a property, but a noble and free human being; no one can give her to anyone in exchange for peace… or to end animosity,” the Taliban decree, released by spokesperson Zabihillah Muhajid, said.