Lagatar24 Desk
Kabul, Aug 13: Days before the first anniversary of the hardline Islamists’ return to power, Taliban gunmen opened fire into the air on Saturday to disperse a rare women’s demonstration in the Afghan capital.
An AFP correspondent reported that some 40 women marched in front of the education ministry building in Kabul while chanting “Bread, work, and freedom,” but the fighters dispersed them by shooting their weapons into the air.
Taliban fighters chased and thrashed some female demonstrators with their rifle butts after they sought safety in adjacent stores.
The demonstrators demanded the right to work and to participate in politics while waving a banner that said, “August 15 is a black day” about the forthcoming anniversary.
“Justice, justice. We’re fed up with ignorance,” the protesters chanted before they dispersed.
