A year under the Taliban
I hardly could remember how life was before the Taliban came back into power. It was as if they had never left.
Kiana Hayeri
She was a girl of just five when the Taliban took over Afghanistan the first time, and her parents did not hesitate: with the militants bent on imposing a puritanical form of Islam, the family packed their bags and fled.
But when the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, Nilaab, now a 30-year-old mother of two, did hesitate.
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