LONDON - Afghanistan’s women are “fighting alone” against discrimination by the Taliban authorities and feel abandoned by the world, sauys Afghan journalist Zahra Joya.
August 15 is "a very painful day" for this 34-year-old woman, who lives in London, where the AFP interviewed her on Friday. It's the day "I lost everything in my country," she says, evoking the "shock", the "fear" and the "chaos" that surrounded the capture of Kabul on August 15, 2021 by the Taliban insurgents. While a few days earlier she had lunch with a friend at the restaurant and was doing her job as a journalist, she suddenly lost her "fre…