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Post-Taliban Warlords Oppress Afghan Women

Human Rights Watch, in a 52-page report, singled out warlord Ismail Khan in the city of Herat, instrumental in helping the United States topple the Taliban, for bundling women back into the all-enveloping burka and forcing them to undergo "chastity checks."
"Many people outside the country believe that Afghan women and girls have had their rights restored," when the Taliban was removed from power a year ago, said Zama Coursen-Neff, co-author of the report, "We Want to Live as Humans."
"It's just not true. Women and girls are still being abused, harassed and threatened all over Afghanistan, often by government troops and officials," she said in the report.