"Security issues, it appears, are more important to Western countries than women’s rights. What matters is that the region is more stable and opium production is down. This, though, is another insane situation. We pay Turkey to grow poppies. Where do you think codeine and diamorphine come from? It is possible to move from illicit to legal trade and without it Afghanistan will remain cripplingly poor. The other people who see the openings here, of course, are the Chinese who have built roads into the country and want to mine the lithium there."
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In late August 2024, the Taliban introduced new laws under which women in public spaces must completely veil their entire body at all times. Female voices are forbidden from being heard in public, including being heard from the street when at home. In addition, women in Afghanistan cannot look directly at men to whom they are not related by family or marriage.
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