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...hard to find a woman in Kabul now who does not remember a beating at the hands of the Taliban. As it consolidated power, its orders became increasingly bizarre and sadistic, based on its extreme interpretations of Koranic instructions. One of these demanded punishment for women who allowed their shoes to make noise when they walked down the street. But this surreal pettiness masked real misery. The ban on work for most women had a disastrous effect on schooling for both sexes, since as many as 70% of all Afghan teachers were women. Excluding them from the classroom meant that...
...work ban extended to widows, who were left no recourse but to beg. In a nation with as many as a million widows?out of a population of just 20 million?that decree alone produced a silent disaster. Sabza Gul, 32, now begs at the Kabul bus station and makes about 50 on a good day. Some years ago, when she was still living in a village north of the city, her husband went blind. The family became dependent on whatever money their son Humayoun, 17, could earn as a field worker. The fields were close to the occasional fighting...
...those who stayed home, determined mothers have found ways to get schooling for their daughters. Rawshan and Nasima, both 30, are married to the same man, Abdul Qadir, 55, a porter in a Kabul market who makes about $1 a day. Rawshan has one son and three daughters by Abdul. Nasima has one son and two daughters. Desperately poor, they live in a house peppered with bullet holes. For the past two years, Rawshan's eldest daughter Wahida, 10, has been going to a secret school in an abandoned building. She has only one hour of lessons a day, given...
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...Farhad Darya The first song played on Radio Afghanistan after the Taliban's tumble was Kabul Jaan, by Farhad Darya, an Afghan singer in exile. Now living in the U.S., he spoke with TIME's Jeffrey Ressner...