Until Taliban authorities took power in Afghanistan, women like Fatima were able to freely sell their hair to be made into ...

Until Taliban authorities took power in Afghanistan, women like Fatima were able to freely sell their hair to be made into ...

In the shadowy corners of Kabul’s salons and wig shops, a quiet but powerful act of defiance is unfolding. Afghan women, once ...

Until Taliban authorities took power in Afghanistan women like Fatima were able to freely sell their hair (Photo: AFP) Kabul: Afghan women, including Fatima, a 28-year-old worker in Kabul ...

Buyers who want to export the locks for wig production abroad “would knock on our doors to collect” the hair, she said. This photograph taken on March 3, 2025 shows an Afghan woman hairdresser ...

She still collects hair that has fallen from her eight-year-old daughter's head and her own, with strands from the root more valuable than those cut with scissors. The unemployed Afghan woman ...