Afghanistan International: According to these sources, Gul Bibi and a group of other women in Darqad district had clashed with a local Taliban commander and his associates over their attempts to take over the women’s land and destroy their crops. In response to the women’s resistance, the Taliban officials, allegedly in collusion with “a local land-grabber and bully,” intervened to forcibly remove the women from the property. Click here to read more (external link).