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Taliban have banned hairdressers in Afghanistan’s Helmand province from shaving beards, while also prohibiting stylish haircuts a media report said.

“The Taliban have banned stylish hairstyles and shaving beards in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan,” The Frontier Post reported citing the Taliban’s letter.

The publication further stated that officials from the Ministry of Islamic Orientation, at a meeting with representatives of men’s hairdressing salons in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, advised against styling hair and shaving beards.

The order, distributed on social networks, also contains a request not to play music or hymns on the premises of hairdressing salons, The Frontier Post reported.

It is been over a month since the Taliban captured Kabul after an aggressive and rapid advance against Afghanistan government forces amid the withdrawal of US and NATO troops from the country.

Since then the group has reimposed Sharia laws which were in effect under its previous regime froom 1996-2001.

Recently, Taliban have stated that the group will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, as necessary though perhaps not in public.

On Saturday, the group’s fighters shot dead four alleged kidnappers and their bodies were hung in the streets of Herat province.

Mullah Nooruddin Turabi said that this time, judges – including women – would adjudicate cases, but the foundation of Afghanistan’s laws will be the Quran. He said the same punishments would be revived.