The daily English lessons that Shabana attends are the highlight of her day. Taking the bus in Kabul to the private course with her friends, chatting and laughing with them, learning something new for one hour each day - it’s a brief respite from the emptiness that has engulfed her life since the Taliban took over Afghanistan.

In another country, Shabana* would have been graduating from high school next year, pursuing her dream to get a business degree. In Afghanistan, she and all teenage girls have been barred from formal education for three years.

Now even the small joys that were making life bearable are fraught with fear after a new law was announced saying if a woman is outside her home, even her voice must not be heard.

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    9 days ago

    Next time don’t support the losing opposition of shitty warlords that made the Taliban look better in comparison lol.

    I seriously don’t get why they decided to make them the government of Afghanistan if they were going to invade anyway and could have set up a real government with a proper election.

    Almost like they wanted some former criminals who would follow every order given to them in exchange for becoming the head of the country.