In Afghanistan, women leaders fear return to a life of terror, and other stories

#WomenLead (Issue 62): Your weekly round-up on women in politics

Hello, and welcome to Issue 62!

We send our (late-in-the-day) but warmest greetings to all our Indian readers on the occasion of the country’s 75th Independence Day🇮🇳. Here’s dreaming of a country based on social justice, equal opportunity and unfettered joys for all its citizens, and of course, a representative democracy! 

We have spent the last week i…