An Afghan woman cleans customers's shoes in a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 5, 2023. After the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, women have been deprived of many of their basic rights. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





An Afghan girl works at a traditional carpet factory in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 5, 2023. After the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, women have been deprived of many of their basic rights. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Afghan women weave wools for making carpets at a traditional carpet factory in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 6, 2023. After the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, women have been deprived of many of their basic rights. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





An Afghan bride attends a mass wedding ceremony during the International Women's Day, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Afghan brides and grooms participate in a mass wedding ceremony during the International Women's Day, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





An Afghan bride holds a bouquet of roses at a mass wedding ceremony, during the International Women's Day in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





A man walks beside a burqa-clad woman riding a donkey along a street in Fayzabad on March 8, 2023. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





Afghan women stage a protest for their rights to mark International Women's Day, in Kabul on March 8, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





An Afghan man helps an injured man after a bomb blast in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital city of Balkh province, in northern Afghanistan, Saturday, March 11, 2023. A bomb exploded on Saturday during an award ceremony for journalists in the city. (Photo by Abdul Saboor Sirat/AP Photo)





An injured man lies down after a bomb blast in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital city of Balkh province, in northern Afghanistan, Saturday, March 11, 2023. (Photo by Abdul Saboor Sirat/AP Photo)





Afghan boys look from a window of their house in Yaftal Sufla district of Badakhshan province on March 12, 2023. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





A woman walks with her children in hillside in the Baghshah area of Fayzabad district, Badakhshan province, on March 14, 2023. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





Girls attend a class at a local school in Zabul on March 14, 2023. (Photo by Sanaullah Seiam/AFP Photo)





An Afghan boy covers himself with a plastic sheet as he rides on a donkey after rains in Argo district of Badakhshan province on March 20, 2023. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





Afghans celebrate the Persian New Year Nowruz in Kabul, Afghanistan, 21 March 2023. The New Persian Year, which has been celebrated for at least 3,000 years, is one of the most important celebrations in the greater Persian world, which includes the countries of Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and portions of western China and northern Iraq, and is traditionally celebrated on the Spring equinox, the day when the duration of night and day are roughly equivalent, usually falling on the 20 or 21 March. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA/EFE)





Afghan children enjoy a ride on a pirate ship attraction during “Nowruz”, the Persian New Year which was celebrated widely in Afghanistan before the Taliban returned to power but is now unacknowledged by the country's new rulers, in Kabul on March 21, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





A girl buys a ballon from a ballon seller, during celebration of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in a cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Nowruz is celebrated on the first day of spring in countries including Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Iran. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





A boy looks out from his damaged home in Miya village, in Alishing District of Laghman Province on March 22, 2023, following an overnight earthquake. At least 13 people were killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by a strong earthquake felt across thousands of kilometres, but the region appeared on March 22 to have dodged the mass casualties usually associated with a tremor of such scale. (Photo by Shafiullah Kakar/AFP Photo)





A man opens the door of a library on the grave of Marzia, 18, and Hajar, 19, in Kabul, Afghanistan, 22 March 2023 (issued 24 March 2023). The two cousins were killed among tens of other students, mostly female, who had gathered for a practice university entrance exam at an institute of Kabul in September 2022, following a suicide bomb attack. In tribute to the girls, their families placed a library with their favorite books on their grave at a graveyard in Dasht-e-barchi area. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA/EFE)





A vendor prepares traditional sweets, ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 22 March 2023. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in Koran was during its last 10 nights. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)