From Kabul and beyond, a year of Taliban rule in Afghanistan – By Lyse Doucet (BBC News) / Aug 15, 2022
When you arrive at Kabul International Airport, the first thing you notice is the women, clothed in brown scarves and black cloaks, stamping passports.
An airfield, which one year ago was the scene of a panicked tide of people desperate to escape, is now much quieter and cleaner. Rows of white Taliban flags flutter in a summer’s breeze – billboards of the old famous faces have been painted over.
What lies beyond this gateway to a country which was turned upside down by a swift Taliban takeover?
Kabul, where women are told to give their jobs to men
The messages are startling, to say the least.
“They want me to give my job to my brother,” writes one woman on a messaging platform.
“We earned our positions with our experience and education… if we accept this it means we have betrayed ourselves,” declares another.
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