If Franz Kafka had been a writer from Afghanistan rather than a Czech, he might have penned the following gem of convoluted bureaucracy. “Send us a man to do your job so we can sack you, Taliban tell female officials.”

That’s The Guardian’s headline for a story describing how the Taliban have asked women employed by the finance ministry in Afghanistan to send a male relative to do their jobs for them...

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