Virtual imprisonment of women and their exclusion from the general society is clearly being imported from Saudi Arabia under the guise of Islamism.
We all know that most of the Arab countries (exceptions are the Maghrib states of Morocco, Tunisia), have been practicing these traditions for the last many centuries if not longer.
There was however a brief period during early Islam when these hideous Kaffar-practices were outlawed. Unfortunately the same Kuffar practices crept back in, this time in the name of Islam.
Truly sad to see that our Taliban are simply aping these stone age Saudi practices.
In this day and age, an keeping girls illiterate is very much akin to burying them alive (the common practice that preceded Islam in Saudi).