Young Afghan women defiant as Taliban bring back moral police
ANNIE BANERJI AS the Taliban reintroduce a moral policing ministry in Afghanistan that once controlled women's lives, female activists and students say a young generation of educated and working women will not accept oppression by the Islamist militant group. Three weeks after storming to power, the Taliban announced an all-male interim government on Tuesday that included the Ministry of Guidance and Call, formerly known as the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Punishment of Vice or the moral police. During the Taliban's prior 1996-2001 rule, girls could not attend school and women were banned from working or studying. Women had…