{"id":27908,"date":"2024-09-05T13:12:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T08:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/?p=27908"},"modified":"2024-09-06T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T06:42:10","slug":"increasingly-repressive-taliban-rules-push-girls-and-women-to-extremes-as-despair-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/increasingly-repressive-taliban-rules-push-girls-and-women-to-extremes-as-despair-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasingly repressive Taliban rules push girls and women to extremes as despair rises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Warning: This article discusses suicide. If this story raises any concerns for you, please reach out to a local mental health provider or online to mental health support service https:\/\/ipso-care.com\/ which also offers services in Pashto and Farsi.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Rukhshana Media&#8217;s reporters <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tahira was a positive and motivated journalism student when the Taliban abruptly banned her from continuing her university studies in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 24-year-old was no stranger to adversity. She\u2019d fought hard to overcome the challenges of completing school in a remote village in Daikundi province to meet the requirements of the highly competitive journalism course at Kabul University, and faced gender and ethnic discrimination in the country\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTahira was a diligent and resilient student,\u201d one of her classmates said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Taliban\u2019s early incursions on women\u2019s rights when the group seized power in 2021 did not rattle Tahira\u2019s focus to pursue her dreams, her older sister Behishta said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTahira endured the first two years of the Taliban&#8217;s ban on education with the hope that it would not last. However, contrary to her hopes, the Taliban remained steadfast in their decision,\u201d Behishta said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Beheshta-1140x570-1-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27928\" width=\"983\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Beheshta-1140x570-1-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Beheshta-1140x570-1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Beheshta-1140x570-1-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Beheshta-1140x570-1-360x180.png 360w, https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Beheshta-1140x570-1-750x375.png 750w, https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Beheshta-1140x570-1.png 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 983px) 100vw, 983px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tahira- Image :supplied <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tahira worked on finding a way to leave the country and had ramped up her efforts to learn English with that goal in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHer main goal was to secure scholarships &#8211; her only option for continuing her education. In the first year, she searched with a lot of hope. With the money she earned from teaching at a private school, she attended English language courses to meet the scholarship requirements,\u201d Behishta said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in the second year, Tahira lost her teaching job. So she turned to sewing to replace the lost income, but it wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Behishta said Tahira had to quit the language classes as her income dwindled, and slowly she also abandoned her pursuit of scholarships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On April 13 this year, Tahira took her own life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A grief without end for Tahira\u2019s family<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Behishta still finds Tahira\u2019s death hard to accept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe had become very despondent and quiet, but she was a strong girl who had overcome a difficult path to get her education,\u201d Behishta said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tahira\u2019s family whom she lived with in Kabul tried to save her life once it became clear that she had swallowed poison. Her brother-in-law rushed her to Muhammad Ali Jinnah Hospital in western Kabul at 2.00pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only half an hour earlier, Tahira had called her mother and Behishta in Daikundi to speak with them. She\u2019d asked her mother what she needed to from Kabul and informed her sister Behishta that she had left her keys in a somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A doctor at the hospital called Behishta\u2019s husband and informed him that Tahira\u2019s chances of surviving looked slim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By 8.00pm, Tahira\u2019s eyes had closed forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sitara was desperate to end crushing restrictions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With deepening restrictions on girls and women in Afghanistan being imposed by the Taliban, reports are increasing of rising despair and mental health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Numerous cases of female suicide and suicide attempts have been reported and many others talked about but never confirmed. Taliban authorities have at times denied or prevented coverage of these tragic cases, including prohibiting families from speaking to the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been almost two years since 17-year-old Sitara* tried to end her life by shooting herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bamyan province teenager described feeling like she was living \u201ca miserable life under the shadow of the Taliban\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September 2022, after eating breakfast, the teen went to her father&#8217;s wardrobe where she knew he had a pistol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doctors said the bullet passed through her chest and just missed her spine, but causing serious damage to her nerve vessels, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTwo nights before the incident, my father had come home and left his pistol among his clothes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sitara\u2019s mother Soraya* was in the barn milking her sheep when she heard a gunshot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 47-year-old rushed home and found her daughter lying unconscious on the floor, with her eyes open and fixed on the ceiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSeeing Sitara in that state, I screamed and called for help,\u201d Soraya said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUntil we reached the clinic, I thought she was dead. When she regained consciousness, she was incessantly screaming and moaning. The doctors at the clinic instructed us to take her to the Bamyan central hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The drive to the hospital took five hours from their home in Panjab district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn the way, Sitara kept screaming and pleading with me to end her pain and suffering,\u201d Soraya said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sitara\u2019s father has joined the Taliban forces after facing unemployment to support his family of eight. He earns a monthly salary of 10,000 afghanis (US$142).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for Sitara, the Taliban represent nothing good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLife under the Taliban is nothing but darkness,\u201d Sitara said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEvery day, I walked the long distance between home and school. I wanted to join the military after graduation and had set a goal to wear my country\u2019s army uniform one day. But suddenly, everything collapsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe person I was and the person I was supposed to be have been destroyed under the ominous shadow of the Taliban. The Taliban took away all my hope. Today, I can&#8217;t even go to the bathroom alone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Karima attempted to escape threatening situation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Karima*, her recent attempt was driven more by terrible fear of a forced marriage by a man who seemed to have the favour of the Taliban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her mother Maryam recounted the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt has been two months since a man named Hashim, from district ten in Badakhshan province, who is probably around 40 or 41 years old, proposed to marry Karima,\u201d Maryam said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe proposed three times, but neither Karima nor we were willing to accept. Despite this, he was determined to marry Karima by any means possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maryam said that the Hashim came to their home twice with armed men and one time he threatened Karima&#8217;s father, who is a day laborer, to pressure him to agree to the marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maryam said that 20-year-old Karima overheard her father discussing these threats at home, and the next day, she swallowed rat poison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karima&#8217;s mother said that Hashim is already a husband and father of a family and they had had no prior dealings with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is unclear whether he is officially a Taliban member, but Karima&#8217;s family said he has the support of the local Taliban and is using force to marry their daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karima said she was suffering from deep pain when she tried to end her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was extremely frustrated. It has been several months that we are going through great difficulties,\u201d Karima said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSince that 40-year-old man wants to make me his wife, I felt like I\u2019m a burden to myself and my family. That&#8217;s why I wanted to end my life so that I won&#8217;t be a problem for anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Taliban de facto authorities in Afghanistan recently announced a new level of restrictions of girls and women under what it called the Law of the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It requires women to cover their entire body and conceal their faces in public, and bans a woman\u2019s voice from being heard in public as an intimate level of exposure. 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