Mohammad Qayoumi's photos show how free Afghanistan women were before Taliban. Photos by Mohammad Qayoumi show the free life Afghan women enjoyed. Kabul- born Qayoumi went on to become an engineering professor in the U. STaliban rule from 1. By. Ted Thornhill.

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Published. 1. 2: 3. GMT, 2. 2 January 2. GMT, 2. 3 January 2. Women in Afghanistan were brutally repressed under Taliban rule from 1. The Taliban were condemned around the world for their treatment of women.

Under their rule they were forbidden to be educated, publicly beaten for showing disobedience and forced to wear burqas – a garment that covers the whole body, apart from the eyes. Women browse in a Kabul record store.

Women in a biology class at Kabul University. However, Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi, who was born in Kabul in Afghanistan, and went on to become an engineering professor at San Jose State University, wrote a photo- essay book called Once Upon A Time in Afghanistan that documented how life before the Taliban used to be very different for women. His photographs from the 1.

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This picture of Afghan women attending university in 1. Western world. Women nurses tend to babies in a hospital infant ward. A laboratory at a Vaccine Research Center. Afghan women being taught biology. Kabul university students chat in- between classes.

Mr Qayoumi said: ‘Remembering Afghanistan’s hopeful past only makes its present misery seem more tragic. But it is important to know that disorder, terrorism, and violence against schools that educate girls are not inevitable. I want to show Afghanistan’s youth of today how their parents and grandparents really lived.’Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai recently endorsed a code of conduct that would prohibit many of the scenes shown in these photographs.

It states that women are not allowed to travel without a male guardian and must not mingle with strange men in public places such as schools, markets and offices. Happier times: Afghan women taking part in a Scout scheme. The modern transport of the day: Female bus passengers in Kabul. Afghanis mingle freely in a cinema. Wife- beating is only prohibited if there is no 'Shariah- compliant reason', it said. Mr Karzai insisted the document was in keeping with Islam and did not restrict women.'It is the Shariah law of all Muslims and all Afghans,' he said. Nurses arrive at the house of an elderly villager.

Mothers and children pictured having fun in a city playground. Women look on as a nurse at a hospital shows them how to bathe a baby.