She Spent Sleepless First Night Under Taliban Rule

Aisha Khurram, a 22-year-old former youth representative to the United Nations, is just months away from graduating from Kabul University.

Aisha Khurram spent a sleepless first night under Taliban rule, the sound of gunfire and evacuation planes puncturing the silence as she reflected on a day that "shattered our souls and spirits to the core." "It was like a doomsday for the entire nation to see everything collapse in (the) blink of an eye," she told AFP in a series of messages via Twitter on Monday after Taliban fighters swept into Kabul, and her neighbourhood, uncontested. Khurram, a 22-year-old former youth representative to the United Nations, is just months away from graduating from Kabul University. But she and fellow female students now face an uncertain future.