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Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil: Taliban Bans Construction of "Chairs" in Herat

The Taliban’s Encouraging Virtue and Forbidding Vice officers in Herat have ordered carpenters and woodworkers to stop making chairs. The officers said that using chairs is not permissible because “men and women sitting around chairs causes the feet of non-mahrams to touch each other.” A number of carpenters in the Chahar Souk area of Herat city say that the Encouraging Virtue officers came to their workplaces today and strictly ordered them to …
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The Taliban’s Encouraging Virtue and Forbidding Vice officers in Herat have ordered carpenters and woodworkers to stop making chairs. The officers said that using chairs is not permissible because “men and women sitting around chairs causes the feet of non-mahrams to touch each other.” A number of carpenters in the Chahar Souk area of Herat city say that the Encouraging Virtue officers came to their workplaces today and strictly ordered them to …

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روزنامه اطلاعات روز broke the news in on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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