Women and girls in Afghanistan are banned from watching the Qatar World Cup in public as they are subjected to harsh curtailing on their personal freedoms.
Shabnam Nasimi, a former UK special advisor on Afghanistan, this week used Twitter to ask people to ‘imagine not being allowed to work, to go to school, to travel alone without a male relative’.
The gun-toting image of Taliban fighters patrolling in Kabul reinforces accounts of the self-styled Emirate rolling back civil rights However it is unlikely that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan will have any visible presence in the Gulf state during the World Cup.a New York-based think tank, told Metro.co.uk that the Taliban will want to distance itself from what it views as a ‘debauched’ event.
‘Qatar has maintained its embassy in Kabul and tried to get some basic infrastructure going and was first to offer flights in and out of Kabul Airport after the Western nations withdrew. Girls study in a secret school at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s ascent to power
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