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<title><![CDATA[Afghan women still forced to cover up]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[May 16, 2008 - Toronto Star: Six years after the fall of the Taliban, the cocooning burqa hangs on, even in a liberated capital rushing headlong into modernity, as if leaping millennia in one breathless hurdle. Tradition, family pressures, shyness and a sense of personal security without violation &#8211; all are given as reasons for clutching still to the metres of billowing fabric that cascade from scalp to ankle.]]></description>
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