Now I have no hope': How life has changed for women living in Kabul

But all that changed on August 15 when the Taliban took control of Kabul.
"It started off as a normal day like any other," Lima told 9news.com.au.
Lima arrived at the university and took her usual class in the morning.

But, by the time the lesson had ended, word had spread among Lima's colleagues that the Taliban takeover would happen that day.
"My reaction was this can't be true, we didn't expect that it would happen this soon," she said.
Warned by her fellow staff members that is wasn't safe for her to be there, Lima decided to go home.
"When I left, I saw people walking on the streets. There was a very bad traffic jam and there was no local transportation available," she said.
"So I had to walk home and I could see that everyone was really worried from their expressions. It was clear that something bad was going to happen."
'I screamed very loud'
Lima was two-years-old when the Taliban first took control of Afghanistan in 1996.
She was seven when the brutal regime fell to its knees in 2001 after September 11.
During its five years in power, the Taliban enforced its strict interpretation of sharia, or Islamic law.

Source: 9news.com.au