Every day is a struggle under the Taliban. There is absolutely no hope in the heart of any Afghan as we are all worried and think about life under Taliban rule.

Our country has been taken by the Taliban and we still can’t comprehend how it happened over night. After the Taliban took over, they made many promises in front of the international community which included women’s rights and an interim government. But we Afghans know that these promises are empty, a propaganda and simply lies!

There is not a single promise kept by the Taliban. Day before they announced their complete cabinet which consisted of only mullahs and the Taliban, there was not a single woman,a single educated person or a single experienced person in the cabinet. And not in any sense it is an interim government as it only has people from the Pashtun ethnicity. What about the Tajiks, Hazaras and the Uzbeks and the minorities like the Turk, the Sikh and the Baloch and many more? Are we going to live under a Talib Pashtun tyranny? Because clearly there is nobody to represent us in the cabinet.

The Taliban are carrying out a systematic removal of women from the face of Afghanistan. Taliban’s new rule allows education to women only till 6th grade which means girls won’t be able to go to college or universities anymore. Women who have studied till 6th grade will only become wives in the future! This is the larger plan of the Taliban and the world is still silent!

Women in Afghanistan will only be able to work as toilet cleaners according to the latest rule announced by the Taliban. Our struggles for a free Afghanistan will not work out until the international community joins us. If not then we will be chained and dragged back to the same darkness we were put 20 years back. This will not only be our loss but the loss of every peace-loving and free country because the Taliban will not stop in Afghanistan and will spread like a virus in all parts of the world.