Javed Akhtar Condemns Kabul Mayor's Order Asking Working Women To Stay Home

A number of women in Afghanistan have been protesting against the Taliban government, demanding equal rights in all spheres of life.

Lyricist and scriptwriter Javed Akhtar has expressed his discontent and appealed to all the Muslim bodies to collectively condemn the order by the mayor of Kabul telling women to stay at home. Aljazeera has reported that the mayor of Kabul has ordered all working women should stay at home I expect all important Muslim bodies to condemn it because it is being done in the name of their religion Where are all those who were till yesterday shouting in defence of 3 talaq

Taking to Twitter, Mr Akhtar wrote, "Aljazeera has reported that the mayor of Kabul has ordered all working women should stay at home. I expect all important Muslim bodies to condemn it because it is being done in the name of their religion. Where are all those who were till yesterday shouting in defense of 3 talaq?"

The Kabul mayor has said that more than 2,900 people work in Kabul's city economy. Out of those, 27 per cent of them being women who work as local representatives in district offices, in revenue and construction engineering, he added.