> After Taliban order, some Afghan women cover faces but others defiant / 329P8JY
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After Taliban order, some Afghan women cover faces but others defiant / 329P8JY
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Women wear the burqa in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar -- the de facto power centre of the Taliban -- but many are expressing defiance after the Taliban issued a directive ordering them to cover fully in public, including their faces, or stay indoors. "I am being imprisoned," says activist Tahmina Taham, a former government employee who lost her job after the Taliban stormed back to power last year. "I can't live in freedom and all my social life is being controlled by the Taliban." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES