The Beetle read a touching account from the

BBC
News on-line

about women in Afghanistan having freedoms but
not being free to enjoy these. This is what it said: Girls
can go to
school, at least in the big cities like Herat and Kabul, and a fragile
peace now exists in a war-torn country that has known only brutality
and chaos since 1979. But some things, it seems, have not
really
changed at all.

Mamozai’s Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Driving School was
one of the first driving schools in Afghanistan to allow women to
enrol. The Taleban thought the idea of teaching women how to
drive was
“satanic”, but Mr Mamozai’s school now has more than 200 female
graduates.

Even so, the women are often told to “sit up like a
man” by their male instructors as they navigate the precarious
back-roads of Kabul, and to “stop driving like a woman. ”

But then that is hardly surprising. Most of
the
instructors are ex-Taleban and they do not really think women should
drive at all. They certainly would not allow their own wives
to drive