All those dead Taliban fighters are probably going to be spinning in their graves with stuff like this happening in Afghanistan,

The [voter registration] process started last December and, so far, around 22 percent of the 320,770 Afghans who signed up to vote are women. Up to 10 million people are estimated to be eligible to register to vote in the country.

That, and Kabul Television recently broadcast the first images of a woman singing in more than 12 years

Source:

Number Of Afghan Women Registered To Vote Increases. UN Wire, July 13, 2004.

Afghans lift TV ban on women singers. Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters, January 13, 2004.

The What a Difference a War Makes for Women in Afghanistan by Brian Carnell, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

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