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a few weeks ago, activist zarifa yakubi and three others were detained, another move that belies a hardening of the taliban s stance on women. there s more. this is badakhshan university in the north. female students weren t allowed to enter unless they wore a burqa. they have the opportunity. and this young student is now questioning what could come next. we re hiding her identity to protect her. every day when i wake up as a girl in afghanistan, i have to hear a new news day by day. these limitations came first, and we are waiting just, we are waiting to hear, it might be tomorrow they say you cannot come out from your home and you have to stayjust to your home. not far away, the taliban s morality police. its vice and virtue ministry. another place afghan women are barred from. i asked the spokesman why they were clamping down on women.
The Taliban has cracked down on universities in Afghanistan in recent weeks. University campuses have become a hotbed of anti-Taliban protests led by female students. In the latest incident, the Taliban beat a group of women who held a rally outside their university in Badakhshan Province.
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan says it is trying to establish good relations with the international community in cooperation with Qatar. The government, after being not invited to a meeting in Moscow, says it welcomes any huddle that benefits Afghanistan.