Young women in Afghanistan are rejecting the traditional burqa for more comfortable abayas and hijabs, challenging ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a ...

Mr Hayatullah Rafiqi, a specialist in Pashtun culture, said the burqa was “strictly imposed” under the first Taliban government – when some women were “whipped if they did not wear it ...