The Taliban have paraded women in black robes with hoods that cover their faces and appear to block their vision, a radical dress-code that has raised concern about their plans for female education. 

Several dozen women wearing black robes, some with hoods over their faces and gloves covering their hands, were gathered in a lecture theater to hear speakers decry the West and back Taliban education policies at Kabul university on Saturday.

The outfits worn at the meeting on Saturday drew comment because of the use of a hood covering the eyes, something unheard of in Afghanistan rarely seen even in the most extreme religious settings elsewhere.