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Taliban guards in Kabul in May, after the announcement of a decree that all Afghan women must wear full burqas in public. EPA
Taliban guards in Kabul in May, after the announcement of a decree that all Afghan women must wear full burqas in public. EPA
Are Afghanistan's Taliban 'slowly slipping back' to ways of the 1990s?
Public lashings, executions and new round of restrictions for women come amid mixture of fear and calm for citizens
Ali M Latifi
Kabul, Afghanistan
07 December, 2022