Even people would be like, ‘Oh, Kabul can defend itself for a year or so,’ but morale is lost. “It was so unexpected, no one expected this to happen this soon. She said she’d spent hours at a bank on Sunday trying to withdraw as much money as possible to see the family through the coming days of uncertainty. Some didn’t make it to the markets before they closed on Sunday, as store owners rushed to get home. CNNīurqa prices surged as much as tenfold in Kabul as women raced to beat the militants ahead of their advance, according to another woman in the city, who is also not being named for security reasons. The price has surged as women rush to cover themselves to avoid attracting the militants' attention. When the Taliban last controlled Afghanistan, women who disobeyed orders were beaten.īurqas hang in a market in Kabul on July 31. Her father, Mohammad Harif Khairi, who also lost his wife and another daughter in the blast, said the young broadcaster had been receiving death threats for months.
One of them was Mina Khairi, a 23-year-old killed in a car bombing in June. Religious scholars, government officials, journalists, human rights defenders and women had become victims of targeted killings, the commission said.
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TV was banned, and teachers and students were instructed to wear turbans and grow beards. In July, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission said in areas controlled by the Taliban, women had been ordered not to attend health services without a male guardian. “Schools will be open and the girls and the women, they will be going to schools, as teachers, as students,” he said.īut stories from locals on the ground paint a different picture – and there’s a deep mistrust of militants who caused such misery under their last rule. Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said Monday that under the Taliban girls would be allowed to study. Women huddle outside the UN offices in Kabul seeking help in January, 1999. We are just trying to have a clue … would women be allowed to work and to occupy a job or not?” “This is something that concerns me more,” she said. She’s also concerned about her future freedoms as a woman. “There has been no clear announcement about the form of the government in the future – do we have a parliament in the future government or not?” she said. This time, the Taliban is promising to form an “Afghan inclusive Islamic government,” although it’s not clear what form that will take and if the new leadership will include women.įarzana Kochai, who was serving as a member of the Afghan Parliament, says she doesn’t know what comes next. In 2009, the Elimination of Violence Against Women law criminalized rape, battery and forced marriage and made it illegal to stop women or girls from working or studying. When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan between 19, they closed girls’ schools and banned women from working.Īfter the US invaded in 2001, restrictions on women eased, and even as the war raged, a local commitment to improving women’s rights, supported by international groups and donors, led to the creation of new legal protections.
Workers at a beauty salon strip large photos of women off the wall in Kabul on August 15, 2021. To Afghanistan’s women, the flowing cloth represents the sudden and devastating loss of rights gained over 20 years – the right to work, study, move and even live in peace – that they fear will never be regained. Some women said they had no time to buy a burqa to comply with Taliban rules that women should be covered up and accompanied by a male relative when they leave the house. The speed of the militants’ advance caught locals off guard. In 10 days, Taliban militants captured dozens of provincial capitals left vulnerable by the withdrawal of US and allied troops. CNN is using aliases for Najia and Manizha to protect their identity for safety reasons. The deadly July 12 attack on Najia’s home in Faryab province was a chilling preview of the threat now facing women across Afghanistan after the Taliban’s takeover of the capital Kabul. The mother of four died from the beating. They paused for a moment before throwing a grenade into the next room and fleeing as the flames spread, she said. Manizha said she yelled at the fighters to stop. My mother collapsed, and they hit her with their guns – AK47s.” “My mother told them, ‘I am poor, how can I cook for you?’” said Manizha. Najia’s daughter Manizha, 25, knew they were coming – her mother had told her they’d done the same thing the previous three days, demanding that she cook food for up to 15 fighters. Najia was at home with her three young sons and daughter in a small village in northern Afghanistan when Taliban fighters knocked on their door.
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