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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ashifa Kassam and agencies

Taliban ban women from national park in Afghanistan

Men and women in pedalos on a lake at Band e-Amir in  Afghanistan’s central Bamiyan province
Men and women in pedalos on a lake at Band e-Amir in Afghanistan’s central Bamiyan province. Photograph: Bülent Kılıç/AFP/Getty Images

The Taliban have banned women from visiting one of Afghanistan’s most popular national parks, adding to a long list of restrictions aimed at shrinking women’s access to public places.

Thousands of people visit Band-e-Amir national park each year, taking in its stunning landscape of sapphire-blue lakes and towering cliffs in the country’s central Bamiyan province.

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