TITLE

Taliban Demands Rigid Conformity

AUTHOR(S)
Maier, Timothy W.
PUB. DATE
October 2001
SOURCE
Insight on the News;10/22/2001, Vol. 17 Issue 39, p14
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Focuses on the governance of the radical Islamic-fundamentalist Taliban in Afghanistan. Description of the social and political condition in Afghanistan; Discrimination of women.
ACCESSION #
7199448

Tags: TALIBAN;  AFGHANISTAN -- Politics & government;  AFGHANISTAN -- Social conditions;  SEX discrimination against women

 

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