Women are 45% of the population of Afghanistan, but this huge section of society has always been deliberately and systematically marginalized, by males who have used a particular interpretation of Islam to justify their harsh actions.



Off an on, Afghan women have come out of their shells, thanks to particular liberal rulers. But these episodes have typically been short-lived as eventually, the conservative islamtism have come back, as indeed they have now.

Abdul Rahman Khan, who has the Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901 was a modernizer. Have gave women the right to divorce, raised the legal age of marriage, and gave them the right to own property. His son and successor Habibullah (1901 - 19) followed in his father's footsteps in this garden.