The Taliban kept her out of class for 2 years. Today, she's studying at an elite private school in Vancouver

Marweh Attai, 18, was sitting in her Grade 11 math class in 2021 when she saw the end of her life as she knew it draw near.

Attai heard gunfire and, when she looked out the window, saw explosions. 

“We knew that this is going to end pretty soon, and these schools are going to be shut, and we’re gonna be imprisoned in our houses pretty soon,” Attai told The Early Edition host Stephen Quinn.

That was May 2021. Three months later, the Taliban took power and shut down schools for girls and restricted the rights of women. 

Earlier this year, the Taliban confirmed it will ban women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan because

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