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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

I'm sitting here waiting for them to come.

There's no one to help me or my family.

I am just sitting with them and my husband, and they will come for people like me and kill

me.

I can't leave my family.

And anyway, where would I go?

This is how Zarifah Gafari, the youngest mayor in Afghanistan, describes her future with the Taliban

now in charge of her country.

They have frequently vowed to kill her in the past.

Her father was gunned down last November, 20 days after the third attempt on her life failed.

The Taliban declared an amnesty yesterday and called on women to join their new government.

Their spokesmen declared during a news conference Tuesday in Kabul,

we assure that there will be no violence against women.

However, when the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan, their fighters tortured and killed the country's

former president, then hanged his body from a traffic post.

Women who were unaccompanied in public places could be beaten, an Afghan mother was forced to kneel in a stadium,

and then shot dead between the goalposts. According to the U.S. State Department, women over the age of eight were prohibited from attending school.

Females were given only the most rudimentary access to health care.

The Taliban raided and temporarily closed a foreign-funded hospital in Kabul

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