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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Charlotte Greenfield

Taliban bars government employees without beards from work

FILE PHOTO: A Taliban fighter guards a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 16, 2021. REUTERS/Ali Khara/fFle Photo

Afghanistan's Taliban has instructed all government employees to wear a beard and adhere to a dress code or risk being fired, three sources told Reuters, the latest of several new restrictions imposed by the hardline Islamist administration.

The sources said representatives from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice were patrolling the entrances to government offices on Monday to check that employees were in compliance with the new rules.

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