Taliban issue no-shave order to barbers in Afghan province

Afghans sit outside a mosque in Kabul on Monday. The Taliban has ordered barbers in one province not to trim or shave beards (Felipe Dana/AP)

The Taliban has banned barbershops in a southern Afghanistan province from shaving or trimming beards, claiming their edict is in line with Shariah, or Islamic, law.

The order in Helmand province was issued on Monday by the provincial Taliban government’s vice and virtue department to barbers in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital.