Fw: Women In Afghanistan

[Jayawant Patil]

--- On Mon, 25/4/11, NAUSHIRWAN IRANI <naushir...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: NAUSHIRWAN IRANI <naushir...@yahoo.com> Subject: Fw: Women In Afghanistan To: "HOOFRISH. FARZAD MULLAN" <hoofris...@hotmail.com>, "SACHIN THAKUR" <sct...@gmail.com>, "J J Verghese" <jjvt...@yahoo.co.in>, "RUKSHAN H. VAKIL" <vak...@hotmail.com>, "FARHAD VAKIL" <fva...@pssindia.com>, "FARZAD MULLAN" <farzad...@gmail.com>, "Danial Gaikwad" <dd.ga...@ismt.co.in>, "ANIL VERMA" <a_nil...@rediffmail.com>, "JABEEN KHWAJA" <jabeen...@yahoo.com>, "DALJEET SINGH AULAKH" <apja...@yahoo.com>, "RAIS ALAM KHAN" <rais...@yahoo.co.in>, "AMARDEEP SINGH GADHOK" <globala...@yahoo.com>, "BHUWAN RAI" <bhuwa...@yahoo.co.in>, "Ajay Arora" <akay...@yahoo.com>, "Bhupinder Singh" <bhupinde...@yahoo.com>, "PRAMOD KUMAR" <vpramod...@gmail.com>, "SOUMITRA PATTNAIK" <soumit...@gmail.com>, "ranjit bisht" <ranji...@hotmail.com>, "Jamshid Irani" <jamshi...@ymail.com>, "tikkua...@gmail.com" <tikkua...@gmail.com>, "we4v...@gmail.com" <we4v...@gmail.com>, "Danesh Irani" <ameshaspen...@gmail.com>, "AJIT THOKAL" <tpg...@ismt.co.in>, "MOHIT THAPA" <mohit1...@rediffmail.com>, "SINSINWAR LT COL" <somesh...@yahoo.co.in>, "sandeep khajuria" <skhaj...@yahoo.co.uk>, "S K Kahali" <kah...@yahoo.com>, "Pankaj Bhandari (R M O) Capt" <docpanka...@yahoo.co.in>, "Gaurav Arora" <mailbox...@gmail.com>, "Davinder Singh" <davin...@gmail.com>, "Subash Krishnan" <capts...@yahoo.com>, "Abhisheikh Major DAQMG" <lovesh...@yahoo.co.in>, "Huti Maravala" <hutima...@hotmail.co.uk>, "manish asthana" <adgu...@yahoo.co.in>, "nietzsc...@yahoo.co.in" <nietzsc...@yahoo.co.in>, "Rohit Singhal" <vish...@yahoo.co.in>, "SUNIL BHASKARAN" <bhaskaran.dw...@gmail.com>, "sudhir bhaskaran" <sudhir_bha...@yahoo.com>, "Sushil Tiwari" <sktsk...@gmail.com>, "Amit Agarwal" <amit...@yahoo.com>, "drzafa...@gmail.com" <drzafa...@gmail.com>, "Delshad Irani" <delsha...@ymail.com>, "SANJAY MALIK" <maliks...@gmail.com>, "Ashit Ranjan" <ranjan....@gmail.com>, "mg.ku...@cvkcpl.com" <mg.ku...@cvkcpl.com>, "Prithviraj Bisht" <rajtha...@hotmail.com>, "Rajesh Sharma" <captr...@gmail.com>, "suresh bhaskaran" <sureshbh...@yahoo.com>, "Manish Shukla" <mani...@yahoo.co.in>, "SATPAL NAGUL" <snagu...@gmail.com>, "SMRITI JACOB" <smrit...@yahoo.com>, "SUMIT DATTA" <sumitda...@hotmail.com>, "VIVEK GUPTA" <acira...@yahoo.co.in>, "Zarin Damania" <zarind...@yahoo.co.in>, "pravardhan rajshekar" <prava...@hotmail.com>, "Harjeet Bhattal" <harjeet...@yahoo.com>, "Avinash Bist" <avina...@yahoo.com>, "M K Yadav" <mkya...@yahoo.co.in>, "JAYAWANT PATIL" <jayawan...@yahoo.co.in>, "Paras Basnett" <parasb...@ymail.com>, "Gautam Pathak" <gaut...@gmail.com> Date: Monday, 25 April, 2011, 12:30 PM Subject: Women In Afghanistan       -     WOMEN WHO KNOW THEIR PLACE Barbara Walters, of 20/20, did a story on gender roles in Kabul , Afghanistan , several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands. She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind their husbands. Despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem happy to maintain the old custom. Ms Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, 'Why do you now seem happy with an old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?' The woman looked Ms Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation said, ... ... ... ... “Land mines.”