[5] She played a key role in establishing literary program to students in universities and schools in Kabul,[3] and was a well known public figure.
[5] After the hardline Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 1996, Dastgirzada secretly set up a women's poetry club in Kabul.
[citation needed] Although they were deep about pain and sorrow, the main theme remained hope.
[3] They were about various topics including social issues, injustice, motherhood, nostalgia of Afghanistan, and new found discoveries in the Netherlands.
[1] Then-President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, called her death an " irreparable loss to the cultural and literary community.