it's getting late, so mahbouba tells the woman to go home. i cannot protect her!ect any woman. these women have to protect themselves. how can i protect them? tell me, how can i protect them? what can i do? does it make you feel sad? it makes me feel angry, not sad. this is not the time to be sad, this is a time to be angry. if i can do something, i want to do something. mahbouba has no idea what's happened to the girl, but there have been other reports of women being abducted and forced into marriage by the taliban. it's notjust women who are feeling under threat. asadullah is a law student and civil rights activist from kabul. he funds his studies with a part—timejob, selling fabrics. he says he was stopped on the street two days earlier. translation: a taliban ranger pickup truck stopped _ and they got off. they asked me where i was going. i told them i was a student and was on my way home. they started frisking me. they found my university card, and an identity card of the civil rights organisation i was working for. after they found the card, their commander,

welcome back, mahbouba.re like day to day? what is life like in afghanistan now? >> well -- hi, thank you for having me here. there is a lot of discontent in this country, a lot. people are getting hungrier, people are getting poorer, and especially with the last two explosions that happened in the mosques, one in kandahar, a whole lot of, how shall i say, this comfortable feeling people had that at least, okay, the taliban are here because we're safer so there's no explosions or anything, that kind of is also disappearing. so a lot of people and their families are trying to get out of afghanistan because if this thing continues, they're really going to lose their education. so there's a very uneasy feeling in the air all together and not a whole lot of trust and they're kind of waiting for the taliban to take the first step and do something, but they're being extremely slow and they're not doing it. and the thing is that the taliban kept on saying for the people of afghanistan, okay, we're talking to the wo

rising, najibullah sought out one of the most prominent advocates for women's rights in afghanistan, mahboubased up the chance to leave the country. >> once i was forced to leave this country. and i couldn't really help it in those days. and that was 1978. and i was young. and i couldn't, because they were going to kill me. the communists were going to kill me. today, i want to, i want to give it to the afghan people, whatever, whatever i have-- my time, my love, my belief, my knowledge... everything. >> narrator: she said despite the taliban's quick moves to clamp down on women's rights, she wants the new government to engage with her on the issue. >> i cannot tell you how much i want to really talk to them. i am here in afghanistan i want to tell them and i'm not going anywhere. i'm sitting right here. because the women, the 18 million women of afghanistan, are not dead, and 18 million women of afghanistan, they really need voice. and i will be that for as long as i can. and i would love to sit down with them and talk to them. i would really love to. >> narrator: while najibullah was at her

. >> reporter: afghan american mahbouba seraj is one of the most prominent women's rights activists.do you want to say to those girls who haven't been able to go to school? >> i want to say to them, "my girls, my dears, my daughters-- don't lose hope. because that is going to destroy you more than you not going to school." >> reporter: and you are going to keep fighting for them. >> till the last, the last... breath i take. >> reporter: women and girls in afghanistan, united and defiant, despite the odds. imtiaz tyab, cbs news, kabul. >> o'donnell: and still ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news," what caused another airline to cancel more than 1,000 flights? lyft releases a disturbing safety report, revealing thousands of incidents of sexual assault. and, was it a meteor that blazed through the midwestern sky, or, was it something else? >> o'donnell: tonight, another u.s. airline is struggling to restore full service. skywest airlines canceled more than 1,100 flights in the past two days. the carrier blames it on an internal technical issue. skywest is a regional carrier in the west

. >> reporter:av began american mahbouba seraj is one of the most prominent women's rights activists. what do you want to say to those girls who haven't been able to go to school? >> i want to say to them, "my girls, my dears, my daughters, don't lose hope. because that is going to destroy you more than you not going to school." >> reporter: and you are going to keep fighting for them. >> till the last, the last... breath i take. >> reporter: women and girls in afghanistan united and defiant, despite the odds. imtiaz tyab, cbs news, kabul. >> o'donnell: and still ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news," what caused another airline tli? lyft releases a disturbing safety report revealing thousands of incidents of sexual assault. and was it a meoblazed through the midwestern sky or was it something else? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibility you need to unveil them to the world. ♪ what makes new salonpas arthritis gel so good for arthritis pain? to unveil them to the world. salonpas contains the most