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...first few days after the Taliban's ouster we rejoiced in the pictures of Afghan women peeling off their burkas to feel the sun on their faces. But Shahnaz says we got it all wrong. The burka itself is not oppressive; what was cruel, she says, was the edict forcing women to wear it. "Now the Taliban is gone we will take it off when we want to. Maybe in summer when it gets too hot," she says, sitting in the living room of the house she shares with her father, Abdul Jan, a former military officer in the Afghan...
...woman was shot in the head and several other people brutally beaten in cell-phone robberies. In January Lord Woolf, Britain's most senior judge, ruled that all mobile-phone thieves should be given custodial sentences regardless of their age. Several teenagers have already felt the force of the edict - and two weeks ago Abdullahi Fidow, 16, was sentenced to six years in a young offenders' institution for his role in two violent robberies involving cell phones...
...Abdullah faces similar difficulties when it comes to issues like sex and education. The ban on women driving certainly limits Saudi economic potential. But what had been a long-standing cultural taboo became a seemingly irreversible religious edict in 1990 after a group of 40 women protested against the prohibition by driving cars in a convoy through downtown Riyadh. Abdullah has green-lighted a very limited population control campaign to address what may be the gravest long-term threat to stability, a birthrate unofficially put at 4.2%, one of the world's highest. (The population of Saudi nationals...
...assassin's family," Khaksar says. He sits at a desk with a picture of the late Northern Alliance hero, Ahmed Shah Massoud, on his desk, perhaps insurance in case the current rulers of Kabul might begin to doubt his loyalties. As a Taliban, he publicly enforced an edict banning television but he has one prominently displayed in his office. "Even as a Taliban, I had a TV," grinned Khaksar, "but I had to keep it hidden...
...assassin's family," Khaksar says. He sits at a desk with a picture of the late Northern Alliance hero, Ahmed Shah Massoud, on his desk, perhaps insurance in case the current rulers of Kabul might begin to doubt his loyalties. As a Taliban, he publicly enforced an edict banning television but he has one prominently displayed in his office. "Even as a Taliban, I had a TV," grinned Khaksar, "but I had to keep it hidden...