The Taliban’s effective ban on women working sank in on Monday, sparking rage over the dramatic loss of rights after millions of female teachers and girls were barred from secondary school education. After pledging a softer version of their brutal and repressive regime of the 1990s, the Islamic fundamentalists are tightening their control of women’s freedoms one month after seizing power. “I may as well be dead,” said one woman, who was sacked from her senior role at the ministry of foreign affairs. “I was in charge of a whole department and...