VIDEO: Taliban use whips, sticks to break up women's protest against all male government

Gulf Today Report

Taliban forces have used whips and sticks to break up women protesting against the all male government in Kabul, hitting some with full force.

Videos on social media showed Taliban soldiers beating burqa-clad women with sticks in a street filled with protesters.

As the new government was announced on Wednesday, Afghan women protested in the streets of Kabul against the all male government, but they had to take cover after gunmen fired into the air to disperse demonstrators.

According to CNN, women were seen chanting, "Long live the women of Afghanistan."

Women said that no government in the world can deny the presence of women.

A 23-year-old student Sharifa Qayumi said we are not a herd of animals or an illiterate bunch that would need men with batons to guard and lead us…

Sharifa said we are all educated (and) from dignified families... They beat some of our friends with sticks and threatened them with aerial firing, but we would not give up on our rights.

The new Taliban government has not named a single woman in the cabinet.

The Taliban have also omitted the women's affairs ministry, a position that was created in 2001 after the US toppled the insurgents.