In a move that outraged some traditionalists, the burka was no longer necessary. Soon women in Kabul were following the lead of Queen Soraya and wearing Western clothes on the city’s streets.

On International Day of Education, UNAMA urges the Taliban to lift their ban on female education, affecting millions of ...

Walking through the streets of Kabul in a burka, she describes: “Burka-women are like horses with blinkers; they can only look in one direction. Where the eye narrows, the grille stops ...

Her plight reminded me of a woman in her 20s I interviewed in Kabul in 2001. As a young mother, she lamented the inconvenience of being clad in a burqa, a garment covering the entire body ...