Even before Taliban could cement its political footprint in Afghanistan, capital Kabul is already facing a grim makeover. One sans pictures, ad posters of women on showrooms and beauty salons.
A photo of two men covering up such posters in the city has gone viral on Twitter.
The picture surfaces at a time when women in Afghanistan, who have been vulnerable targets of the Taliban regime in the past, are terrified of what lies ahead.
Multiple ‘reassurances’ from Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen that women’s rights will be respected this time around, in adherence to norms that suit Afghanistan’s future as an Islamic Emirate, has done little to help the cause.
Women from all spheres of society, football players to graduate students, are crying for help as the country’s inevitable instability leaves less to no options for them.
The Taliban swept into the capital on Sunday after the Western-backed government collapsed and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, bringing an end to a two-decade campaign in which the US and its allies had tried to transform the country.
