Afghan women have launched an online campaign against stricter dress codes for female students.
Using the #DoNotTouchMyClothes Hashtag and # AfghanistanCulture, many are distributing photos of their beautiful cultural clothing. The BBC's Sodaba Haidare spoke to one of the campaign's most influential women.
Write "Traditional Afghan Clothing" on Google and you will be amazed to see multi-colored traditional clothing. Each is unique, with handmade ornaments and patterns, heavy, small mirrors neatly carved into the chest, long and pleated skirts. Some women wear hats and hats, others wear scarves on their heads, depending on which province of Afghanistan they come from.
The previous version of such clothing was worn daily by women going to university or their place of work in the last 20 years.
Sometimes the pants were replaced with jeans and fabrics were placed over their heads instead of over the shoulders.
But pictures of women in long black dresses covered with black abays, covering their face and arms, and gathering in Kabul over the weekend in support of the "Taliban order" have shown significant differences.
In one video, women leading Taliban-backed protests in the capital were seen saying Afghan women dressed in beauty and in modern clothing "do not represent the Muslim woman of Afghanistan" and "we do not want women's rights that are foreign and illegal" - referring to Islamic law supported by the Taliban.
