The current situation around the women's human rights issue in Afghanistan is purely political. True enough that the previous regime, or more accurately, its militia tragically and wrongfully committed atrocities against women. To claim that the current situation is for the good of women is like putting under house arrest every office worker in the World Trade Center and telling them that it is to protect them from terrorist bombings instead of tracking the terrorists. Also, the claim that the practices of the Taliban mirror the traditional village and Islamic values of Afghanistan is incorrect. They typically wear just a head scarf, at home, in the market and in the field.
Some women wear the chadari as a way to show off their gentrification.
And the authority to allow her to wear either, rests solely with the men of her immediate family, not the government. It is an insult to men and a means of subjugating them, especially among the Pashtuns, to usurp this authority. This is why when the women's emancipation of 1959 occurred, it was clearly left up to the men of a family to decide on it. As for the claim that these are Islamic traditions, today human rights are observed in most Islamic countries, the way they were in Afghanistan before the coming of the Taliban and certainly before the 20 years of war began. The 1964 and 1977 constitutions of Afghanistan provided for gender equality.