A thousand and some days have passed since the onset of deprivation and restriction, oppression, darkness, and suffocation in a prison as vast as Afghanistan. Imagining what girls and women have endured during these days is stifling, and writing about it is painful and heartbreaking. In these thousand days, millions of women have become victims of a situation they had no part in creating.
Millions of futures have been obliterated, and the dreams and lives of millions have been shattered. Before the Taliban’s takeover, what were girls’ perceptions of their current lives, and how would they have seen their present and future if the Taliban were not in power? How would women’s lives have unfolded if these thousand days had not passed this way? Where did the girls stand in life, and what peaks of success had they conquered? Or rather, what were their desires? What did they want to wear, and write, and how did they want to socialize? These are questions that some girls from various parts of Afghanistan have answered below. Susan, like hundreds of thousands of other citizens of Afghanistan who fled the country after the Taliban’s takeover, says, “With all the miseries we already had, if the Taliban were not in power, at least we would have had our homeland.
We wouldn’t have become stateless like we are today.” Raihan Hussain, a sociology graduate from Kabul University, who was forced to leave her country after the Taliban’s takeover, says, “If the Taliban weren’.
