Young women in Afghanistan are rejecting the traditional burqa for more comfortable abayas and hijabs, challenging ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a ...

Khaliq began wearing the billowing head-to-toe burqa aged 13, like her mother and grandmother before her. But her daughter, in her 20s, prefers the abaya. "Young people wear the abaya because it ...

“Young people wear the abaya because it is more comfortable,” Khaliq said. The burqa has long roots in Afghanistan. It was strictly enforced during the first Taliban government rule of ...