Taliban administration rejects prohibiting sale of contraceptives
Date
2/19/2023 3:02:00 AM
(MENAFN) Afghanistan’s Taliban administration has rejected prohibiting the sale of contraceptives, rejecting reports of the ban in the British press as “fake news”.
Pharmacies in the nation’s capital, Kabul, were freely selling the family planning goods when The National visited.
An article shared in The Guardian on Saturday morning claimed that the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate has started to apply a “blanket ban” on contraceptives in Kabul, in addition to the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif.
It came after a report with similar claims in The Daily Mail, which cited the Afghan agency Rukhshana Media.
In response to a review from The National, Dr Sharafat Zaman Amar, spokesman for the Taliban-run Ministry of Public Health, described reports of a crackdown as “fake”.
“No one has stopped contraceptives,” he added.
The enforcement of such laws is usually the domain of the Taliban's Ministry for Prohibiting Vice and the Promotion of Virtue. That ministry’s spokesman, Akif Muhajir, informed The National he “did not accept” the reports, also referring to them as “fake news”.
Enquired exactly if contraceptives are allowable in Afghanistan, Mr Muhajir answered: “Yes.”
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