Taliban take part of western Afghan province

Turkmeni soldiers and border police prepare for fighting.

Women professionals in danger.

“Gurbandurdy said, ‘The situation in Khamyab has seriously deteriorated. The number of Taliban has increased and they now set the rules in the area.

“And those rules are all too familiar.

“One woman, whose name we will not reveal, recounted her story to Azatlyk. This woman was a doctor at a hospital in Khamyab until the Taliban started taking villages in the district. She started receiving phone calls.

“’We are the Taliban,’ the callers said, then warned her that they did not want female doctors at the hospital.

“The callers said she could stay in Khamyab district but that she was not to practice medicine. She fled to Mazar-e Sharif.

“A schoolteacher still in the district said he also received phone calls from people identifying themselves as the Taliban. These callers told him the local school principal, who was a woman, had to quit and that all female teachers had to, as well.”

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