Shamila Kohestani

Former first captain of Afghan women's national soccer team. Recipient of the 2006 ESPY Arthur Ashe Courage Award. Blair Academy Alum. Drew University Grad.

[Shamila Kohestani @Sham_Kohestani]

@sbasijrasikh @solaafghanistan Hi Shabana jan, please DM me.

[Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen]

🇦🇫 Our defeat in Afghanistan and the fall of the Republic was first and foremost a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The real turning point was defatist narratives taking hold in the West and in Afghanistan.

And the real enemy was not the Taliban, but our own impatience and fatalism.

[Shamila Kohestani @Sham_Kohestani]

To the Taliban supporters abroad, who believe we can work with the Taliban, how do we do that when all the Taliban wants to do is limit women's opportunities and force them to be imprisoned at home? When women's businesses are closed, how will they support their families?

[Heather Barr @heatherbarr1]

This is about women losing one of the only places they could go for community and support, after the Taliban systematically destroyed the whole system put in place to respond to domestic violence. https://t.co/TeETv1POz6

[Gretchen Peters @GretchenSPeters]

Opium markets remain open & reports suggest Talibs are doing a brisk business in dope, just as they did in 2001 after that poppy cultivation ban. As Narcostan reports, the drug trade in Afghanistan is never what meets the eye. 8 ends/ @bsarwary @StephanAJensen @arian_sharifi

[Sahraa Karimi / صحرا کریمی @sahraakarimi]

شاید تصورش را نمی کردیم که روزی فرا برسد که دختران ما حتی در گوشه آرایشگاه ها هم زار زار گریه کنند.

غمِ زن و دختر افغانستان را پایانی نیست؛ و بی غیرتی، بی ننگی و بی تفاوتی مردان افغانستان را هم گویی پایانی نیست!

این روزهای سیاه، این روزهای تنهایی زن و دختر افغانستان می گذرد...

[Manizha Bakhtari @ManizhaBakhtari]

استاد واصف باختری پدر ما، پیر ما، دانای ما، جان ما، جهان ما دیشب به ابدیت پیوست. در روزهای پایینی عمرش برایش لالایی و شعر خواندیم و دست‌های رنجورش را نوازش کردیم. زنده‌گی او چونان بزرگ بود و یاد او چنین باشکوه است که مرگ وامدار او خواهد ماند تا هنوز تا همیشه.

[Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen]

Once you scratch the surface of the Taliban's propaganda, there is nothing at all "traditional" or "national" about their movement.

The Taliban is an utterly modern movement, mostly based on 20th-century political ideas and foreign religious teachings.

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[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

633 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. Afghanistan remains the only country in the world banning women and girls from getting an education #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

[Shamila Kohestani @Sham_Kohestani]

Well articulated, thank you 🙏🏼

[Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen]

THREAD:
During the first 75 years of the 20th century, 🇦🇫#Afghanistan experienced less war and political unrest than almost every country in the West, including eg. 🇳🇴Norway, 🇧🇪Belgium, and 🇫🇮Finland.
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[Mustafa Babak @mustafababak]

Thank you @SenatorShaheen and @jaketapper for continuously pushing for the need to honor America's promise to protect our Afghan allies.

The moral responsibility our country has to protect Afghans both here at home and outside still in search of safety is as clear as daylight.

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

616 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. Afghanistan remains the only country on the planet preventing women and girls from getting an education, as a matter of state policy #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

"The Taliban have been publicly punishing Afghans for a long time - children & women particularly. The legal framework has been completely abolished. Women have been publicly flogged. It's good to see @UNAMAnews finally doing a report on it" @ShaharzadAkbar human rights activist

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

"17 million Afghan women are living like this & the world thinks it's ok in the 21st century to deprive women of their basic fundamental rights. To some extent, also control the way they breath. Human rights, women's rights is part of the national catastrophe" @Fawziakoofi77

[Kat Craig @KatCraig1]

Such a wonderful moment to witness. Such a deserving recipient. Thank you @JohnAmaechi for all you’ve done to make sport, and the world, a better place.

[jason criss howk @jason_c_howk]

@Sham_Kohestani She is working hard to get the Taliban recognized as a government. That has been the PakISI and foreign ministry main goal since Aug 21

[Shamila Kohestani @Sham_Kohestani]

Economic empowerment in Afghanistan is not possible while half of the population(women) is paralyzed and not allowed to take part in public life. Where did she get her logic?

[افغانستان اینترنشنال @AFIntlBrk]

حنا ربانی، معاون وزیر خارجه پاکستان در محل نشست دوحه گفت که توانمندسازی اقتصادی افغان‌ها، مهم‌تر از نوع رژیمی است که بر آن‌ها حکومت می‌کند

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

Brave Afghan women are still protesting in the streets of Kabul - despite the Taliban crackdown on demonstrations. They continue to demand their basic human rights

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

581 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. Afghanistan remains the only country on the planet where girls and women can’t get an education as a matter of state policy #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

[Shamila Kohestani @Sham_Kohestani]

As the new executive director of @hrw, I expect you to put pressure on the Taliban through the UN &another international mechanism to reopen schools and universities for girls and women. Women are deprived of fundamental rights, & the Taliban stifle their voices.

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

Brave Afghan women are still protesting, demanding their basic rights. They continue to be banned by the Taliban from universities and schools