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New York: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has regretted that girls’ education above sixth grade still remains suspended in Taliban ruled Afghanistan. more
Afghanistan: Women can only enter parks for three days in a week, directs Taliban in new order

Kabul: The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan issued yet another bizarre diktat by which women can only  go to parks three d ...

Taliban will keep finding excuses to stop girls from learning in Afghanistan: Malala Yousafzai

Kabul: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has criticised the Taliban government of Afghanistan and said the group will try to find excuses to stop girls from learning.

Afghanistan: Women demonstrate against Taliban's decision to ban girls from going to school

Kabul: A small group of women demonstrated in Kabul city on Saturday against Taliban regime's decision to ban teenage girls from going to schools.

Taliban threatening provincial media in Afghanistan: HRW

Kabul: Taliban authorities have carried out far-reaching censorship and violence against Afghan media in district and provincial centres, drastically limiting critical reporting in Afghan ...

To spare Afghanistan, world must engage with Taliban, Lyons tells Security Council

New York: Six months after the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, it is time for concerned countries to deepen their engagement with the country’s new authorities and take action t ...

UN condemns brutal killing of eight polio workers in Afghanistan

New York: The United Nations has condemned the killing of eight polio vaccination workers in four locations in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, the first such attacks since nationwide im ...

86 radio stations stopped operations in Afghanistan ever since Taliban came to power

Kabul: Media watchdog organizations said as many as 86 radio stations in Afghanistan have shut down in the past six months ever since the Taliban came to power in the country in 2021.

UN Secretary-General's special envoy meets Taliban Minister over issue of Afghanistan's missing women

Kabul: The UN Secretary General’s special envoy to Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, held a meeting with the acting Taliban Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, where the issue of missing ...

Afghanistan: 50 ISIS-K terrorists surrender in Nangarhar

Kabul: 50 ISIS-K terrorists surrendered in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday.