Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations: Taliban’s restrictions on women originate from Pashtun culture

Pakistan’s representative to the United Nations says that the Taliban’s restrictions on women are part of Pashtun culture.

Munir Akram, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said in a meeting yesterday that the restrictions created by the Taliban for women are not religious, but stem from the Pashtun culture.

He said in the meeting: “From our point of view, the restrictions created by the interim government of Afghanistan are not from a religious point of view, but from a specific cultural point of view of the Pashtun culture, which keeps women at home.”

According to him, this is a special and distinctive cultural reality of Afghanistan that has not changed for hundreds of years.