Five women's secret diary posts, sent to the BBC, reveal how deeply the Taliban takeover has affected them.
When the Taliban swept into Kabul on 15 August the only shots they fired were in celebration. For Afghan women, the salvos represented the loss of all their rights and freedoms. Five of them have been sending the BBC daily diaries, which provide a portrait of their rapidly changing lives.
When Khatera reaches the bus stop, she sees people running in every direction, carrying luggage and children. Traffic is at a standstill.," she writes - the Dari word for "lost". "It's like the Day of Judgement here." She's too young to have known Taliban rule but she has heard horror stories from her parents who lived under their regime in the 1990s. Unless she gets on the flight, this will be her future.Before the takeover, Wahida Amiri, a 31-year-old law graduate ran a library in the heart of Kabul. She had assembled nearly 5,000 books, and her dream was to expand across Afghanistan, to encourage women to take up reading.
They meet at Foroshgah, a shopping centre, and aim to march all the way to Afghanistan's presidential palace. But at the Ministry of Finance, having walked only a short distance, they are confronted by stern Taliban soldiers. As she calls for a ceasefire in Panjshir she's met by a group of angry Taliban soldiers holding AK-47s. One of them moves close to Wahida and says, threateningly: "You'd better go home and cook lunch."
All her female colleagues are there. They're told to sign their names on the register and then go straight back home.Why were all the female teachers called in for nothing? Khatera thinks the headteacher may want to curry favour with the Taliban by showing them the signatures of women ready to work. "They have a photo of you they're showing everyone," he said, speaking to the closed door in case she was listening. "I saw it with my own eyes. If you're still here, please leave. Save yourself."
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