Photo / Jake HanrahanMeanwhile, female employees in the Kabul city government have been told to stay home in the latest restrictions on women by the new Taliban rulers. In their previous rule in the 1990s, the Taliban had barred girls and women from schools, jobs and public life. Afghan women march to demand their rights under the Taliban rule during a demonstration near the former Women's Affairs Ministry building in Kabul. The Taliban and Isis extremists are enemies and fought each other even before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan last month. Taliban fighters sit on the back of a pickup truck as they stop on a hillside in Kabul on Sunday.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 19, 2021 23:48 UTC