New Delhi, Sep 19 (TIWN) Taliban taking over Afghanistan has led to tens of thousands of women fleeing the country to escape the atrocities of the new regime.

Humeira Rizai, a researcher and activist from Afghanistan, who reached New Delhi from Kabul, while talking to reporters said, "Women were executed and beaten (when Taliban took over earlier). They took away all their rights. Women worked very hard to get back on their feet since 2000 which has again been lost." 

When the Taliban ruled the country in 2000, all the rights of women were snatched and they were not treated as humans. Now, the Taliban is back in 2021. And women in Afghanistan don't expect any better deal from them as they are aware of the fact that Taliban would never respect their rights.  As expected the Afghan militia has made it explicitly clear that women cannot be treated at par with men.  To begin with the Taliban has banned the entry of female staffers in the organizations they were working for, concept of co-education has been wiped off and head of Taliban's cultural commission Ahmadullah Wasiq has announced that women's sport is neither appropriate nor necessary. So Taliban is back with a bang with women being on its hit list.