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Originally Posted by PeteMoss

I don't know enough about Afghanistan to know either way, but is this really bad for the Afgan citizens or just that we've been conditioned to feel the Taliban is bad? Probably not ideal for the US given their installed government is falling, but does it matter for the people there?

Girlysports already pointed out that women would be most affected, and that's very true unfortunately.

Life under the Taliban in the 1990s saw women forced to wear the all-covering burka, education restricted for girls over 10 and brutal punishments brought in, including public executions.

"I am in danger - [but] I don't anymore think about myself," Ms Karimi said. "I think about our country... I think about our generation: that we did a lot to bring these changes.

"I think about young girls... there are thousands of beautiful, young talented women in this country."

Speaking to the BBC shortly before Kandahar fell, Pashtana Durrani, executive director of an education NGO that works with Afghan girls, said she was scared for her life because of her vocal role in advocating for women's education.

"The girls who we work with have already fled," she said. "I don't know where the students are and I'm personally scared about their life. What if they're married to a Taliban fighter? What will their life be like?"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58191638