Young Afghanistan women, grown up without Taliban, dread their return

They worry that their dreams will come to an end if the hard-line militants regain any power, even if peacefully as part of a new government.

Inside Ms Sadat’s Beauty Salon in Afghanistan’s capital, Sultana Karimi leans intently over a customer, meticulously shaping her eyebrows. Make-up and hair styling is the 24-year-old’s passion and she discovered it, along with a newfound confidence, in Kabul in the salon. She and the other young women working or apprenticing in the salon never experienced the rule of the Taliban over Afghanistan. But they all worry that their dreams will come to an end if the hard-line militants regain any power, even if peacefully as part of a new government.