Arrested for a Greeting: The Price Afghan Women Pay for a Simple Word Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Nov 6 2025 (IPS) - The Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, is the name given by the Taliban to their religious police, tasked with enforcing strict Islamist rule on the people of Afghanistan. But for Afghan women, the name evokes only fear and terror, as they bear the harshest consequences of its actions. https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/arrested-for-a-greeting-the-price-afghan-women-pay-for-a-simple-word/ Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.