The Taliban are reported to be marking the doors of prominent women in Afghanistan, as journalists say they now fear for their lives.
Several female anchors have been removed from state TV stations with fears growing they are being silenced, days after the terrorists seized control.
A female journalist in Kabul says her sisters and friends are being confronted by conservative men who shout: "The Taliban are here to discipline you!"
Now there are chilling claims doors at the homes of well-known women are being painted.
It is suggested Taliban officials have demanded a "huge search", with militants already working on lists of women to target for future punishments.
Homira Rezai told the BBC: "I have received an update from Kabul where they are going house to house searching for women who were activists, women who were bloggers, YouTubers.
"Any women who had a role in the development of civil society in Afghanistan.
"They are going door-to-door targeting those women and marking the doors with bright pink or bright-coloured paint to ensure 'this is the house we need to come back to and do something about them'."
Journalist Amie Ferris-Rotman said the Taliban were hunting door-to-door on Monday - and they are making lists.
Activists, journalists and government workers are being tracked, she explained.
She tweeted: "Over the past hour, several Afghan female friends in Kabul told me the Taliban are in their neighbourhoods, going house to house, looking for women in government and media, making lists.
"One sent me a photo from her living room showing armed Talibs outside. 'I love you,' she wrote."
It comes after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says he fled the war-torn country to "prevent a flood of bloodshed" as the Taliban stormed Kabul.
From 1996-2001, when the Taliban last ruled, girls were banned from school and women were barred from work or even appearing in public without burqas and male escorts.
They were even denied healthcare and were unable to see a male doctor while females weren’t allowed to practice.
Public flogging was the punishment for those who flouted the rules.
In the last two decades things have improved, but women fear all their achievements will be eradicated.
“We don’t count because we were born in Afghanistan,” says one young Afghan woman said a heart-breaking video posted on social media.
“I can’t help crying,” she continues. “No one cares about us. We will die slowly in history."
Many high-profile female figures are now simply sitting ducks.
The country’s first female mayor, of Maidan Wardak province, says she is waiting to die.
Zarifa Ghafari, 27, said on Sunday: “I’m sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family.
"I’m just sitting with them and my husband. And they will come for people like me and kill me. I can’t leave my family. And anyway, where would I go?”
