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Stefanie Glinski, Michael Hirsh

‘The Taliban Have Tracked Me’

A young shepherd plays with his sheep on the outskirts of Logar province, on Dec. 14, 2019. FARID ZAHIR/AFP via Getty Images

POL-E ALAM, Afghanistan—Shaima Zargar, director of women’s affairs in Logar province, just south of Kabul, says that up until a year ago she dressed pretty much as she pleased. She certainly never wore a chadari, or burqa, the forbidding blue shroud that the Taliban forced all women to wear the last time they were in power. 

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