Hundreds of young women are turned away from Afghan universities

Hundreds of young women were turned away from Afghan universities this morning hours after Taliban rulers banned them from higher education.

Armed guards stopped the students from entering campuses on Wednesday, a day after the nation’s Taliban rulers banned them in another assault on human rights.

Despite promising a softer rule when they seized power last year, the hardline Islamists have ratcheted up restrictions on all aspects of women’s lives, ignoring international outrage.

‘We are…