This was possible because of fall of the Taliban and the 2001 Bonn agreement changes and it also allowed Kohistani and her peers to complete their high school education and to graduate from university.
Her fellow protesters included leading Afghan campaigners Tamana Zaryab Paryani and Wahida Amiri.
[3] The Human Rights Council received a joint report by Special Rapporteurs Dorothy Estrada-Tanck and Richard Bennett concerning the discrimination of women in Afghanistan as it was then, again, governed by the Taliban.
[4] On International Women's Day in 2024 Kohistani joined a panel which included Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, the Maltese ambassador Vanessa Frazier, Professor Penelope Andrews and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai moderated by CNN's Jomana Karadsheh.
"[7] The next day her story was being reported, She noted that the authorities in her country had denied access to education to millions of girls like her own daughter.