An Afghan child carries dried clay bowls at a traditionally run factory at Istalif district in northwest of Kabul province on July 3, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





A staff prepares to leave after closing a beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, 04 July 2023. The Taliban government has in a recent decree imposed a ban on women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan, that will effect some 12,000 hairdressing salons according to the Kabul Chamber Of Craftsmen. The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice on 04 July confirmed that beauty parlors were ordered to wind down their businesses within a month in Kabul and all 33 Afghan provinces. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA)





Staff prepare to leave after closing a beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, 04 July 2023. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA)





An Afghan beautician applies makeup to a client at a beauty salon in Mazar-i-Sharif on July 5, 2023. Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have ordered beauty parlours across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed July 4, the latest curb to squeeze women out of public life. (Photo by Atif Aryan/AFP Photo)





An Afghan sheepherder walks his sheep through street in Fayzabad district of Badakhshan province on July 6, 2023. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





Taliban soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 6, 2023. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





A general view of a beauty salon on July 8, 2023 in Kabul, Afghanistan. This week, a Taliban spokesman said the group, which regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, was ordering the closure of beauty salons because they offered services forbidden by Islam. (Photo by Nava Jamshidi/Getty Images)





A general view of a beauty salon on July 8, 2023 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Nava Jamshidi/Getty Images)





A general view of a beauty salon on July 8, 2023 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Nava Jamshidi/Getty Images)





A general view of a beauty salon on July 8, 2023 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Nava Jamshidi/Getty Images)





Afghan girls fill containers with water from a canal on the outskirts of Kandahar on July 16, 2023. (Photo by Sanaullah Seiam/AFP Photo)





Afghan women stage a protest for their rights at a beauty salon in the Shahr-e-Naw area of Kabul on July 19, 2023. Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have ordered beauty parlours across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed the latest curb to squeeze women out of public life. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Afghan boys learn the holy Koran at a madrassa or an Islamic school in Kama District of Nangarhar province on July 19, 2023 (Photo by Shafiullah Kakar/AFP Photo)





Afghan residents carry the bodies of children, who died in flash floods in the Jalrez district of Maidan Wardak province on July 23, 2023. The death toll from overnight flash floods caused by torrential rain in central Afghanistan has risen to 26, with more than 40 people missing, officials said. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Afghan boys look at a truck that was damaged in flash floods in the Jalrez district of Maidan Wardak province on July 23, 2023. The death toll from overnight flash floods caused by torrential rain in central Afghanistan has risen to 26, with more than 40 people missing, officials said. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Afghan beauticians close their beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 24, 2023. The ban on beauty salons is the latest in a series of restrictions imposed by the Taliban on women in Afghanistan since taking control of the country two years ago during the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





An Afghan beautician removes a poster in a beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 24, 2023. The Taliban administration say they respect women's rights in line with their interpretation of Islamic law and Afghan culture. The ban on salons, released on July 4 by the morality ministry, said it was based on an order from the supreme spiritual leader. Similar orders have led to the closure of high schools and universities to women and stopped many Afghan female aid staff from work, moves foreign officials say are hampering any steps towards the formal recognition of the Taliban administration. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





Taliban fighters pose for photograph in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The Taliban announced Tuesday that all beauty salons in Afghanistan must now close as a one-month deadline ended, despite rare public opposition to the edict. (Photo by Siddiqullah Khan/AP Photo)





Afghan women walks past a closed beauty parlour in Kabul on July 25, 2023. Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have ordered beauty parlours across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed the latest curb to squeeze women out of public life. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





In this handout photograph taken on July 29, 2023 and released by the Afghanistan's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, members of Taliban stand guard after setting fire to a pile of musical instruments and equipments on the outskirts of Herat. Authorities from Afghanistan's vice ministry created a bonfire of confiscated musicial instruments and equipment in Herat province at the weekend, deeming music immoral. (Photo by Afghanistan's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice/AFP Photo)