Models Khushi Sujata Singh, Sushmita Sharma Shetty join worldwide protest against Taliban’s forced dress code for Afghani female students

NEW DELHI: Mumbai-based models Khushi Sujata Singh and Sushmita Sharma Shetty joined the worldwide protest against the forced dress code for Afghanistan women students being enforced at the threat of a gun barrel by the Taliban.

The duo posted photographs on their social media accounts with the hashtags #DoNotTouchMyClothes and #AfghanistanCulture

Afghan women across the world have started a campaign on the internet to protest against the strict new dress code for female students imposed by the Taliban.

All over the world, women have joined the protests by posting photos of themselves on the internet protesting the Taliban imposition of the burqa and hizab dress code for women in colleges and universities in Afghanistan.

Afghan women are posting photos of themselves wearing colorful traditional dresses on social media using hashtags like #DoNotTouchMyClothes and #AfghanistanCulture.

The campaign was started by Dr Bahar Jalali, a former history professor at the American University in Afghanistan, and has seen hundreds of women posting their photos as well as comments against the Taliban rules and dress code.

Jalali said she started the campaign “to inform, educate, and dispel the misinformation that is being propagated by Taliban”, reported the Hindustan Times.

“No woman has ever dressed like this in the history of Afghanistan. This is utterly foreign and alien to Afghan culture. I posted my pic in the traditional Afghan dress to inform, educate, and dispel the misinformation that is being propagated by Taliban,” Jalali, a former faculty member of the American University of Afghanistan according to her LinkedIn profile, said.

The Taliban mandated the segregation of genders in classrooms and said women students, teachers and employees must wear hijabs.

Women can only attend schools and University in Afghanistan if they are kept in different classrooms and physically segregated from male students.