An Afghan singer who has used her international fame to amplify calls for women’s rights wore an all-enveloping veil to escape her homeland as the Taliban took Kabul. Aryana Sayeed has divided her time between Turkey, Britain, and Afghanistan and had been in Kabul in recent months to start a clothing business. She told Reuters in a weekend interview she received a call on Aug. 14 warning her that the Taliban were closing in on the capital. When the Taliban last held power from 1996 to 2001, they brutally enforced an interpretation of Sunni Islam that banned women from work and school. Sayeed and her fiance Hasib Sayed made reservations on a commercial flight scheduled Aug. 15, the day the Taliban entered Kabul, months after American troops ended U.S. involvement in the Afghan war. The overcrowded commercial flight never took off, Sayeed said in a Washington-area hotel, describing airport scenes …
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