Armed Taliban security personnel ride motorcycles during a street patrol Credit: AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The Taliban’s supreme leader has also vowed to start stoning women to death in public.
“They [the Taliban] are waging an all-out war against us, and we have no one in the world to hear our voices,” a former civil servant told The Telegraph from Kabul.
“The world has abandoned us,” she added. “They left us to the Taliban, and whatever happens to us now is a result of Western government policies.”
‘Many women are taking their lives’
“I feel depressed. The world is advancing in technology and having fun with their lives, but here we cannot even hear each other’s voices,” she said.
“They want us not to exist at all, and there’s nothing we can do about it,” another woman in western Herat province said.
“They may succeed at some point, as many are taking their lives due to the pressure,” she added
“They think ruling Afghanistan is only about suppressing women – we didn’t commit a crime by being born as women,” she said.
The increased restrictions imposed by the Taliban’s supreme leader have caused discord within the Taliban’s own ranks.
A senior Taliban official told The Telegraph of frustration from moderates with the more hardline elements of the regime.
“Someone should stop the supreme leader. Many within the Taliban are angry and worried that, with everything the leadership is doing, we could lose Afghanistan as quickly as we took it,” he added.
“They are worried that as soon as an alternative to the Taliban appears, the people will revolt, and the West will bomb us again,” the official explained.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/28/taliban-bans-women-from-hearing-each-others-voices/