UN calls for lifting of workplace ban on its local women aid workers in Afghanistan

By Saeed Shah

KABUL (Reuters) -The United Nations called on Thursday for the Taliban administration in Afghanistan to lift restrictions on its local female staff coming to work, warning that aid for earthquake victims and other vulnerable Afghans is at risk.

The Taliban authorities deployed security forces at the entrances to U.N. compounds and field offices, preventing Afghan women staff from entering, the U.N. said in a statement.

Taliban’s spokesperson did not immediately respond to a…