If armed men show up at your door and tell you to grow up a beard, stop sending your daughters to schools, and attend their lectures in a local Masjid, and you know that you cannot call any force to arrest these men, what will be your options?Next to no resistance to banning of education for women is evidence enough. Let's not forget, Afghans under Taliban have had bigger "protests" (In Badakhshan), against banning of cultivation of opium.
Armed militias are brutal and are most successful in controlling population bases because they impose such restrictions that are impossible to get through. This is something that TTP also demonstrated in Swat and other regions when it was in power. It takes external force to liberate these people.
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