Kabul, Afghanistan — A ban on girls singing in public imposed by education officials in the Afghan capital last week has been overturned after a social media campaign that included local women uploading videos of themselves belting out their favorite songs.
Schoolgirl choirs are a regular feature of official Afghan events, but when education authorities in Kabul banned the participation of teenagers it prompted an immediate backlash.
The order raised fears that education officials were “Talibanising” the country, heralding a return to when the authoritarian Islamist group barred the participation of women in almost all parts of society outside their own homes.
Late Sunday,…
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