AFP: Tired of burkas that cover the face, urban women under the Taliban’s ‘gender apartheid’ have adopted the abaya robe favoured in Gulf nations. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: After the Taliban fighters entered the cities and the group seized control of the country, the Afghan citizen’s situation changed in many ways. It means the life of many citizens has changed against their desire. Hats and longi (turban), which had lost its value during the past two decades, have become the best-selling goods
Xinhua: “I have been working as a model over the past four years and my dream is to become a popular model to attend major overseas fashion shows in future,” whispered Yalda Haidari. Wearing a traditional dress and cat walked in front of some 200 spectators with majority of them men, the courageous Haidari, 25, admitted