Nasreen Sultani has spent years fighting for the rights of Afghan girls, but the principal of the Sardar-e-Kabuli Girls High School in Kabul said she now lives in constant fear for the safety of her students.
And as the militant group looks to portray its victory over the Kabul government as inevitable, Sultani is one of many Afghan women in leadership roles who say they fear a return to Taliban rule will also spell a return to its austere and harsh interpretation of Islam, which long saw women's rights severely restricted until the 2001 toppling of the regime.
"Women in Afghanistan are the most at danger or most at-risk population of the country," she said, adding that the “criminals” the Taliban had freed from prisons to swell their ranks now also posed a threat, along with "those who [have been] upset with women becoming powerful in the last 20 years."Already, women in cities that have fallen under Taliban control "are like prisoners in home," according to a provincial government official in Afghanistan.
The letter also expressed fears that women and girls could be forced to marry members of the militant group. While she did not believe this practice was widespread, Koofi said, that did not mean that misconduct was not happening, adding that it was likely that the Taliban’s political office was “disconnected with their military fighters.”
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