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women in Kabul
PRASHANT PANJIAR


Through the Ages
Afghan women from the 1960s to the present day


1989
A group of middle-class women in Kabul in 1989. In most parts of the country, society is tribal and conservative. Except for a small minority of educated professionals in the capital, women have long been relegated to a subservient role

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