Afghan women wearing full face veils sat in rows at a Kabul university lecture theatre Saturday, pledging commitment to the Taliban's hardline policies on gender segregation.
About 300 women -- covered head-to-toe in accordance with strict new dress policies for education -- waved Taliban flags as speakers railed against the West and expressed support for the Islamists' policies.
Large Taliban flags flanked the podium, as the female speakers criticised women who have protested across Afghanistan in recent days.AFP | Aamir QURESHI "Is it freedom to like the last government? No, it is not freedom. The last government were misusing women. They were recruiting women just by their beauty," she claimed.Some in the audience held babies, who occasionally cried during the speeches, while others were young girls clearly too young for university.
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