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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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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…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
Afghan women are barred from visiting the museum. Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan: Alongside antique Korans and ancient Afghan coins, rocket launchers and homemade bombs are displayed in a Mazar-i-Sharif museum as a testament to the Taliban’s victory over foreign soldiers. “It doesn’t have any old history, but it all played an important role in the victory,” says…
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