Beauty parlours painted over after Taliban takeover Salons have helped empower Afghan women Secret salons opened during Taliban's last rule Sept 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Shortly after the ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "supports the efforts by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), which has called on the de facto authorities to halt the edict closing beauty ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Beauty pageants inspire all kinds of responses in people - adoration, gawking lust, even pride of ...

The photos in the window promise much: languorous, kohl-rimmed eyes and bright, bold nails -- but once you enter the beauty parlours of Kabul, it becomes clear the images outside are a pale reflection ...