The announcement comes after the UN mission (UNAMA) warned that a new morality law -- requiring women to cover up completely and not raise their voices -- would damage prospects for engagement with the international community.

The Taliban Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (PVPV) said that "due to its continued propaganda, the PVPV will not provide any support or cooperation with UNAMA, which will be considered as an opposing side".

"We want international organisations, countries, and those individuals who criticised the mentioned law to respect the religious values of Muslims and refrain from such criticisms and statements that insult Islamic values and sanctities," the ministry said in a statement posted to social media Thursday.

Last week, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, was banned from entering the country after joining other UN experts in a statement urging the international community to "not normalise the de facto authorities or their appalling human rights violations".

Chief Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told local media Tolo News that Bennett "was appointed to Afghanistan to spread propaganda and he is not someone whose words we can trust."

The Taliban authorities, which are yet to be formally recognised by any nation, are still pushing to fill Afghanistan's seat at the UN, which is held by a former official of the ousted foreign-backed government.