KABUL,Women have taken to the streets of Kabul to protest against Taliban rule.
Despite the presence of militant figures, demonstrators were allowed to continue their protest and were not asked to move on.
Women seen taking out a protest in Kabul demanding their rights. (Photo: Twitter/@AlinejadMasih)
Last month, women across northern and central Afghanistan marched through the streets wielding assault rifles in defiance of the Taliban resurgence across the country, in a protest that gained a lot of traction on social media.
The Taliban has claimed that it will allow women to be educated up to university level and that women have no reason to be afraid of the regime change. Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen stated that ‘all people should be equal and there should not be discrimination in society.’
If these claims are true, it would signal a clear change in ideology from the last time the Taliban were in power.
Yet women across the country fear they will lose many of the freedoms granted to them over the past two decades and return to an era when females were mostly confined to their homes, prevented from working, attending school, or even traveling without a chaperone. (RT).