When women lived free in Afghanistan: Picture above show how they were once able to study, wear skirts and mix freely with men – before civil war, invasion and the Taliban enslaved them
Women in Afghanistan were brutally repressed under Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001 – but fascinating old photographs show how women there used to live freely. Photographs from the 1950s, 60s and 70s show how they used to be afforded university-level education, browse record shops in short skirts.