EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. Afghan women, without their burqas, wash clothes in Kabul river
November 14, 2001. Under its strict interpretation of Islam, the
Taliban banned music, ordered all adult men to wear a beard long enough
to be clutched in a fist and women, hidden behind head-to-toe burqas,
were forbidden to work or study. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis REUTERS

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