As Afghans try to figure out Taliban’s new rules, burqas are barometer of sorts
LA TimesIn the old days — just over a week ago — the burqa-sellers of Kabul were doing a less-than-booming business. When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan, a five-year reign that came to a close in 2001, women risked being whipped by Taliban enforcers if they dared venture out without donning a burqa, the full-body, full-face covering whose mesh eyepiece offers the viewer a blinkered, straitened view of the world. In Kabul, shopkeepers report that since the Taliban’s takeover of the capital on Aug. 15, burqa sales have increased — and so have their prices. On Monday, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen tweeted out a photo of schoolgirls dressed in the same way as before, captioned: “Back to school in the New Afghanistan.” At Fahruddin’s store at the main bazaar in the Khair Khana neighborhood, the 27-year-old merchant and his brother Amir, 20, are now charging more than double their old price for burqas: 1,500 afghanis, or about $17. While Afghan women may be frightened and dismayed at the prospect of Taliban rule, some men — including Fahruddin and his brother — said they saw certain benefits: more public order, less traffic.
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