DOHA: A team of Afghan ladies adolescent to recall the Taliban`s 1996-2001 rule are encountering the same trauma once recounted by relatives after the team retook control of Afghanistan, provoking thousands to force into exile.
“We are returning to darkness,” said one of the university students removed to Qatar, who described feelings of solicitude and fear and like others declined to furnish particulars that could identify them or their kin back home for security basis.
“It`s all the stories that we heard from our parents and our grandparents, and at that moment it was a story but presently it`s like the nightmare substantiated,” a second lady said.
Hundreds of Afghan students, mainly females, shifted to the Gulf Arab state.
When they last held strength, the Taliban rigorously imposed their ultra-conservative judgement of Sunni Islam that included barring women academically or working.
Many hesitate the militant group`s declaration that this time women`s rights will be shielded under the beliefs of Islam.
“Everybody knows how harsh and violent that period was,” the second woman said to Reuters at a residential compound in Doha housing evacuees, including several nationalities.
She stated she did not trust there were enough female teachers in Afghanistan for the gender-restricted classes the Taliban asserts.
The women team said that the Taliban`s values were weird to them and that they would not return to Afghanistan as long as the group exercised control, even under a power-sharing government.
“I assume I no longer belong to this nation and I cannot have my country back because the condition is deteriorating everyday,” the third woman said.
“It consumed 20 years to construct our nation and … now everything has subsided,” another woman added.
The third woman mentioned she tried to bring a handful of soil with her but it was mislaid in luggage at Kabul airport. Now all she has to mention about Afghanistan is her passport.
She is unaware of where she would establish but said she decided to do her best to find a new location and fulfill her studies.
“I will do anything possible for me … because I don’t see the future here in Afghanistan.”
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