KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Vice and Virtue says it officials burned down musical instruments they had collected in Kabul and other provinces during the
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 messages of afghan girls we know it is very clear that this is the message of afghan women and girls that they do not want to live in a society with their rights are denied to them. if you ever doubt they want education going an afghan girl right now. she will tell you that it means her future to her, now. she will tell you that it means herfuture to her, herfuture depends on access to education, on access to school. the taliban seized power on august 15th, pledging a softer version of their repressive regime of the 1990s and to protect women s rights. the evidence contradicts that. under taliban rule, teenage girls older than 12 have been excluded from school in most cities. women, except for those in the public health sector, have not been allowed to return to work yet. last month the women s affairs ministry was replaced by the feared vice and virtue ministry under which the taliban s