A Brief History of Women's Rights In Afghanistan Think of women in Afghanistan now, and you'll probably recall pictures in the media of women being forced to wear full-body burqas, perhaps the famous ...

They too wore the blue burka, known as chadari in Afghanistan. The older of the two singing sisters, Mashal (also a pseudonym), compares the burka to "'a mobile cage". "It's like a graveyard where ...

Since the group claimed power in Afghanistan in August last year, women’s rights have been stripped back by a number of draconian restrictions, including a rule introduced at the end of December ...

It would lead her to Afghanistan, where traditions were deeply ... shed her smart city layers for a burka and left early 20th century Edinburgh for the beautiful yet dangerous mountains of the ...

What does the Taliban stand for? ‘Oppression dress-up’: Lily Cole under fire for burqa Instagram post Why the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan was inevitable “What those promises mean in ...

But he suggested England would not boycott international tournament matches against Afghanistan, arguing that cricket was a ...