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Afghan women receiving food aid distributed by a charity in Herat during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan

Afghan women receiving food aid distributed by a charity in Herat during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan

World

Taliban say ban on Afghan women working for UN ‘an internal issue’

A ban on Afghan women working for the United Nations was an internal issue, the country’s Taliban authorities said Wednesday, adding that the decision...

AFPApril 12, 2023

After a ban on women Afghan staff was implemented, several NGOs suspended their entire operations in protest, piling further misery on Afghanistan's 38 million citizens, half of whom are facing hunger according to aid agencies

After a ban on women Afghan staff was implemented, several NGOs suspended their entire operations in protest, piling further misery on Afghanistan's 38 million citizens, half of whom are facing hunger according to aid agencies

World

UN says Afghan women staff blocked from work by Taliban order

The Taliban have extended a ban on women working for NGOs to the United Nations’ mission throughout the country, a UN spokesman announced Tuesday,...

AFPApril 4, 2023

Four police officers were killed in a roadside bomb attack claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in a northwestern town near the border with Afghanistan

Four police officers were killed in a roadside bomb attack claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in a northwestern town near the border with Afghanistan

World

Roadside bomb attack by Pakistan Taliban kills four police

Four policemen were killed by a roadside bomb as they scrambled to protect a police station under siege by Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan,...

AFPMarch 30, 2023

One truck driver at the Torkham border said that since the Taliban took over, there are no illegal checkpoints where cash is demanded

One truck driver at the Torkham border said that since the Taliban took over, there are no illegal checkpoints where cash is demanded

World

Afghanistan coffers swell as Taliban taxman collects

A dusty logjam of trucks inches across a rut in the mountains splitting Pakistan and Afghanistan, teeming with a cargo of fruit and coal...

AFPMarch 8, 2023

Police officers and residents of Karachi pay tribute to the victims of Monday's suicide bombing at a mosque in Peshawar

Police officers and residents of Karachi pay tribute to the victims of Monday's suicide bombing at a mosque in Peshawar

World

Pakistan to appeal to Taliban leader over police mosque bombing

Islamabad will ask the secretive supreme leader of Afghanistan's Taliban to rein in militants in Pakistan after a suicide bombing.

AFPFebruary 4, 2023

Protesting the ban on university education for women, Afghan student Marwa held up a poster that read "Iqra", the Arabic word for "read"

Protesting the ban on university education for women, Afghan student Marwa held up a poster that read "Iqra", the Arabic word for "read"

World

‘Proud and strong’: Solo protest against Taliban university ban

An 18-year-old Afghan student endured Taliban taunts and insults at the weekend as she staged a solo protest.

AFPDecember 27, 2022

Marwa (C) had hoped she would be able to follow her brother Hamid (L) into higher education but now the Taliban have banned women from attending university

Marwa (C) had hoped she would be able to follow her brother Hamid (L) into higher education but now the Taliban have banned women from attending university

World

Brother and sister’s future separated after Taliban university ban

Women are now banned from attending university in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

AFPDecember 25, 2022

Small groups of Afghan women staged protests in Kabul Thursday to protest against them being banned from university

Small groups of Afghan women staged protests in Kabul Thursday to protest against them being banned from university

World

Afghan women banned from university ‘for not following dress code’

Afghan universities were declared off limits to women because female students were not following a proper dress code.

AFPDecember 22, 2022

Armed guards at the gates of a university in Jalalabad a day after the Taliban banned women from tertiary education

Armed guards at the gates of a university in Jalalabad a day after the Taliban banned women from tertiary education

World

#LetHerLearn: Afghans use social media to protest university ban

Afghans voiced outrage on social media Wednesday over the Taliban's ban on women attending university.

AFPDecember 21, 2022

Afghan female students take entrance exams at Kabul University in Kabul in October 2022

Afghan female students take entrance exams at Kabul University in Kabul in October 2022

World

Taliban bans university education for Afghan girls

The Taliban authorities on Tuesday ordered a nationwide ban on university education for females.

AFPDecember 20, 2022

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