Afghan youth rights activist Wazhma Sayle says she was shocked to see a photograph online, apparently of women dressed in black all-enveloping niqabs and gowns, staging a demonstration in support of the country's new Taliban rulers at Kabul University.
The 36-year-old, who is based in Sweden, later posted a photograph of herself on Twitter dressed in a bright green and silver dress captioned: "This is Afghan culture & how we dress! Anything less then this does not represent Afghan women!"
"It is good our women were able to protest about it," said Khatima, another young woman in Kabul. "The reality is, the burqa is not representative of women in Afghanistan." "No woman has ever dressed like this in the history of Afghanistan. This is utterly foreign and alien to Afghan culture," she said.
Afzal, born in Afghanistan under the first Taliban rule that lasted from 1996 to 2001, said she was horrified when she saw the picture of the black-clad demonstrators.
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