A man has been photographed painting over an advertisement of women wearing wedding dresses in Kabul, taken as the city fell to Taliban forces.
The photo, posted by a prominent Afghan journalist, was taken outside what's reported to be the Taj Beauty Salon.
"Kabul," Lotfullah Najafizada simply wrote in a tweet that's been shared tens of thousands of times.
Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, was the last city Taliban forces needed to claim control over the Asian country, which has been racked by war for four decades.
The photo comes despite Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesperson claiming the insurgent group "will respect rights of women" when it takes control of Afghanistan.
"We will respect rights of women... our policy is that women will have access to education and work, to wear the hijab," Shaheen told BBC News.
Shaheen continued to emphasise his position saying: "No one should leave the country... we need all the talents and capacity, we need all of us to stay in the country and participate."
His comments came following reports that women were sent home from their jobs in fallen provinces and told to leave universities in some instances, according to the Independent.
The Taliban first took control of Afghanistan in 1996, enforcing harsh rules which saw women having to cover themselves and only leave the house in the company of a male relative. They also banned girls from attending school and women from working outside the home.
Their rule over the entire country ended in 2001 when international forces, led by the US, toppled the group in response to the September 11 attacks.
