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The Taliban ordered girls' secondary schools in Afghanistan to shut just hours after they reopened, sparking heartbreak and confusion over the policy reversal by the hardline Islamist group.
About a dozen women chanting "Burqa is not our hijab!" protest in the Afghan capital against the Taliban's new order for women to cover their faces and bodies when in public, ideally with the traditional burqa. Afghanistan's supreme leader and chief of Taliban, Hibatullah Akhundzada, issued a decree over the weekend ordering women to cover up fully, ideally with a traditional all-covering burqa.
The Taliban impose some of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan's women since they seized power, ordering them to cover fully in public, ideally with the traditional burqa.
Afghan women footballers who fled the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan take to the pitch against British parliamentary women footballers in London, with their director calling it an expression of rights that are now banned for women by the hardline Islamists who have imposed sweeping restrictions on freedoms.
Just hours after they’d returned to classes, Afghan schoolgirls had their dreams dashed as the Taliban sent them home again, in a shock policy reversal. For those watching their hopes of education slip away, Afghanistan has become "a jail" under Taliban rule.
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