Province Bans Male Tailors From Measuring Women

Male tailors in an Afghan province have been banned from measuring female clients for fittings following a new local ruling -- and you thought the times of the ultra-conservative Taliban were over.

The decision was made by a council of Islamic clergymen in northeastern Takhar province recently.

"The male tailors have been told to stop measuring women," governor Abdul Latif Ibrahimi told reporters. "They need to be measured by female tailors."

This in a country where the overwhelming majority of commercial tailors are men.

During a meeting last week with President Hamid Karzai, who has been leading Afghanistan since the Taliban's ouster, a national Islamic body urged him to ban the TV airing of hugely popular soap operas, mostly Indian, which it deemed un-Islamic.

The council also demanded the re-introduction of public executions, another policy during Taliban rule.

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