"When I saw two women under a burka singing, honestly I was crying," she says. She was born in 1996, the year the Taliban first took power, and her family fled to Iran when she was just a child.

BJP leader Akhilesh Kumar Awasthi wrote to the state's Chief Electoral Officer, referring to past incidents of veiled women ...

Women in burkas receiving food aid in Kandahar last month Afghan women will have to wear the Islamic face veil for the first time in decades under a decree passed by the country's ruling Taliban ...

Afghanistan’s singing sisters defying the Taliban from under a burka Close Since the 2021 takeover, the Taliban have imposed restrictions on women's freedoms.