Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 16 Jul 2021, 08:48 am Print
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Dark days are returning for women in Afghanistan as the Taliban is slowly capturing regions in the South Asian country where foreign troops are slowly moving out after decades of war.
The Taliban members have once again started to re-impose repressive laws and retrograde policies on Afghan women that defined its 1996-2001 rule when they enforced their version of Islamic Sharia law.
Frud Bezhan and Mustafa Sarwar, writing in Gandhara, said that the re-imposition of repressive measures is the new harsh reality for the tens of thousands of Afghan women who live in areas recently captured by the Taliban, reports ANI.
When it ruled Afghanistan, the Taliban forced women to cover themselves from head to toe, banned them from working outside the home, severely limited girls' education, and required women to be accompanied by a male relative when they left their homes, wrote Bezhan and Sarwar.
Meanwhile, a 36-year-old expressed her fear over the incident.
"Before, I could go to the market alone to buy groceries," Monira, a 26-year-old woman from the Shirin Tagab district in the northwestern province of Faryab, told ANI.
"I could go to the hairdressers. I could wear my hair up," she said.
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