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Word: shirmohammad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Taliban now control 75% of a country torn by war... In their first week the Taliban shut girls out of schools and ordered women workers from offices and hospitals. At a press conference, two female foreign correspondents were forbidden to ask questions of the Acting Deputy Foreign Minister Shirmohammad Stanekzai, because, according to an aide, he "must not hear their voices" ...Residents of Kabul were generally too cautious to express concern about the Taliban out loud, but they certainly had reason to wonder: at the first Taliban-attended Friday prayer meeting, soldiers forced passersby into mosques at gunpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Five Years Ago in TIME | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

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