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Afghan women still struggling: Afghan women still suffer under oppressive conditions, and attitudes change slowly. (Culture).

Publication: Insight on the News
Publication Date: 04-FEB-02 		Format: Online - approximately 541 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Afghan women still struggling: Afghan women still suffer under oppressive conditions, and attitudes change slowly. (Culture).(Brief Article)

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Six years ago, Mehbooba moved her beauty parlor in Kabul, Afghanistan, underground when the Taliban barred women from working and the business of beauty did not fit in with the regime's strict moral code. Six weeks ago, she reopened her apartment-based shop to the public, but this time it was the Northern Alliance who came knocking on the door seeking to impose similar conditions.

Recently, a Northern Alliance soldier, accompanied by a khaki-clad policeman and a shifty-looking man well-known as...

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