Taliban leaders unveil 'Made in Afghanistan' supercar Mada-9

The news of the supercar was met with much praise in Afghanistan and social media users eagerly shared images of the vehicle claiming it as proof of the nation's scientific and technological capabilities.

But many more users pointed out that the supercar was unveiled as Afghanistan battles one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, while the country's women have seen their rights to study and work wiped away by the Taliban.

The Taliban had 'promised through their representatives that there will be no ban on female education or on female workers', said Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the independent Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

'Clearly, we have been misled by the Taliban government. Clearly, they are making it impossible for us to work now,' he said on Monday.

The NRC has nearly 500 women employees working in areas such as food security, education, legal assistance, water, and sanitation across remote areas of Afghanistan.

Women are vital for on-the-ground aid operations in Afghanistan, particularly in identifying other women in need, but are no longer able to perform their roles.

International aid agencies say much of Afghanistan's 38 million people are hungry with three million children at risk of malnutrition.

The hardline Islamists seized power in August 2021, promising a softer version of their brutal 1996-2001 rule that was infamous for human rights abuses.

But they have rapidly squeezed women out of almost all areas of public life over the past several months, banning them from secondary and higher education, public sector work and visiting parks and baths.

Egeland said several senior Taliban officials are against the decrees, acknowledging that many had sent their daughters to schools operated by NGOs before the war ended.

'I'm hearing that there's a fierce debate in the Taliban... There is an internal battle and the wrong group seems to have the upper hand now,' he said.

Government officials claim the ban was imposed because women were not observing Taliban rules on wearing the hijab, an allegation denied by aid workers.

The Taliban government has yet to be officially recognised by any country and only a handful of nations have a presence in Afghanistan.


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