The Taliban cracked down on a small women’s rights demonstration on Thursday, pushing back protesters and reportedly firing shots into the air.

A group of six women gathered outside a high school in eastern Kabul demanding the right for girls to return to secondary school, after the hardline Islamist group excluded them from classes earlier this month.

The women unfurled a banner that read "Don’t break our pens, don’t burn our books, don’t close our schools", before Taliban guards snatched it from them.

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