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How the Taliban's advance will threaten women's rights in Afghanistan

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Pashtana Durrani, the executive director of a girls' education charity based in Kandahar, is now in hiding after being smuggled out of the city. She has spoken with SBS World News after Taliban militants have taken control of 14 of the country's 34 provincial capitals in just over a week.
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