Known for having imposed strict laws in the country in the mid-1990s, the Taliban's possible return in the Afghan power structure makes a lot of women uncomfortable.
On a late September afternoon in 1996, Latifa heard that the Taliban had entered Kabul, a city she was born and raised in. There had been rumours about this for weeks, in the neighbourhood, in her high school, even at home. But the 16-year-old did not know how radically her life was going to change.
After much discussion, Latifa wore the old burqa and her mother covered herself with the chador—a really large shawl-like scarf—to visit the dentist. “My mother insisted that I take the burqa since being a young teenage girl, the Taliban were more likely to inspect my clothing.
Unfortunately for them, they were a too late to react, the police car pulled over behind them and a Taliban official stepped out screaming at her mother. “He was a large man, wearing a black turban and an angry frown on his face. He started yelling at us, calling us kaffir [unbeliever]. ‘You are not wearing a burqa, you are disrespecting our religion. You should be beaten’ he told my mother,” she said, the memory bringing back intense emotions.
“She was in so much pain, she couldn’t even pray,” Latifa said. Her family left the country soon after, and sought refuge in Pakistan. “We were all very angry, we all wanted to do something about it, but we couldn’t. We couldn’t live like this so we left,” she said, adding that the best way forward was to become the very antithesis of what Taliban stand for.
However, in a rare response, the locals in the area stood up to the Taliban and rescued many other women from the same fate. “The Taliban wanted to lash the women, but people didn't allow them. They confronted them and rescued many of the women punished by the Taliban,” Zabiullah Amany, the spokesperson of the Governor of Sar-i-pul told the media, last week.
Anwar further emphasised the Islamic nature of the constitution urging the Taliban to highlight specific aspects of the laws that they deem unislamic.
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