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Street rallies held as Taliban government marks five years ruling Afghanistan

August 15, 2026 admin

Armed Taliban dance during celebrations marking the fifth anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s return to power, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP The Taliban government celebrated five years of ruling Afghanistan on Saturday (August 15, 2026), with supporters taking to the streets, while critics decried…

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Kabul accuses Pakistan of resuming air strikes, killing 10

October 17, 2025 admin

Pakistan launched strikes on Afghan soil late Friday (October 17, 2025), killing at least 10 people and breaking a ceasefire that had brought two days of calm to the border, officials told AFP. The 48-hour truce had paused nearly a week of bloody border clashes that killed dozens of troops and civilians on both sides. “Pakistan has…

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Malala Yousafzai To Muslim Leaders

January 12, 2025 admin

Islamabad: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday not to “legitimise” the Afghan Taliban government and to “show true leadership” by opposing their curbs on women and girls’ education. “Do not legitimise them,” she said at a summit on girls’ education in Muslim nations being held in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad. “As…

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Afghanistan “no threat to India”: says Taliban a day after Dubai meeting

January 9, 2025 admin

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri meets Afghanistan Acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, in Dubai on January 8, 2025 | Photo Credit: ANI The present day Afghanistan “does not pose a threat to any nation”, said the Taliban administration in Kabul on Thursday (January 9, 2024). In a statement issued a day after the Indian…

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Taliban’s Latest Diktat To NGOs In Afghanistan

December 30, 2024 admin

In yet another draconian move to curtail women’s freedom in Afghanistan, the Taliban said it will close all national and foreign non-governmental groups in the country employing women. In a letter published on X on Sunday night, Afghanistan’s Economy Ministry warned that failure to comply with the latest order would lead to NGOs losing their…

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Russia Decides To Remove Taliban From Terrorist Groups List: Report

October 4, 2024 admin

Moscow formally labelled the Taliban a terrorist organisation in 2003. Moscow: Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a decision to remove the Taliban from a list of terrorist organisations had been “taken at the highest level”, the state TASS news agency reported on Friday. The decision needs to be followed up with various legal…

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Everything To Know About Taliban’s New “Vice And Virtue” Law In Afghanistan

September 6, 2024 admin

Kabul: The Taliban government’s new law to “promote virtue and prevent vice” has codified their austere rules for Afghan society, dictating strict controls according to their vision of Islam. In recent days there has been evidence of Taliban morality police enforcing the legislation, as well as Afghans self-policing to avoid conflicts with officials. However, other…

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Taliban’s morality Ministry refuses to cooperate with UN Afghan mission

August 30, 2024 admin

An Afghan woman clad in a burqa walks past a graffiti painted wall, in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, May 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi) | Photo Credit: REZA SHIRMOHAMMADI The Taliban government’s Morality Ministry said it would not cooperate with the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, calling it “an opposing side”. The…

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Taliban Told To “Include Women” In Public Life At Their First UN Meet

July 2, 2024 admin

The head of the Taliban delegation said that diplomats should avoid confrontation and find other ways. Doha, Qatar: Taliban authorities were told women must be included in public life, UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo said on Monday as she defended a decision to sideline civil society groups at official talks in Doha. Rights organisations have strongly…

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Reclusive Taliban leader warns Afghans against earning money or gaining ‘worldly honor’

June 17, 2024 admin

Leader of the Afghanistan Taliban Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada. | Photo Credit: AP The Taliban’s reclusive supreme leader on June 17 warned Afghans against earning money or gaining worldly honour at a time when the country is in the grip of humanitarian crises and isolated on the global stage. Hibatullah Akhundzada gave his warning in a…

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