An Afghan man walks past the former Women's Affairs Ministry building in Kabul, Afghanistan. During their previous rule of Afghanistan in the 1990s, the Taliban had denied girls and women the right to education and barred them from public life. An Afghan girl looks out from a beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan. In Kabul, a new sign was up outside the women's affairs ministry, announcing it was now the "Ministry for Preaching and Guidance and the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice." On Friday, the Taliban-run education ministry asked boys from grades six to 12 back to school, starting on Saturday, along with their male teachers.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 18, 2021 21:22 UTC