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More than 300 Afghan reporters suffer rights breaches under Taliban: UN

November 27, 2024 admin

Image used for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: AFP More than 300 Afghan journalists have suffered rights breaches since the Taliban surged back to power in 2021, a United Nations report said Tuesday, documenting dozens of cases of torture and arbitrary arrest. Afghanistan’s media sector has dramatically shrunk under three years of Taliban government, while…

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In 1st Appointment In India, Taliban Names Young Student Its Envoy In Mumbai

November 13, 2024 admin

New Delhi: The Taliban regime has appointed a young Afghan student in India, Ikramuddin Kamil, as Acting Consul at Afghanistan’s Consulate in Mumbai. This is the first appointment by the Taliban – which New Delhi does not recognise – in India since it took power in Afghanistan in 2021. India withdrew its diplomats from Kabul…

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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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Taliban Restrictions On Women Jeopardise Afghanistan’s Fight Against Polio: Report

September 24, 2024 admin

In a major setback to the efforts to eliminate the highly infectious polio disease in Afghanistan, the Taliban leadership has called off a nationwide vaccination campaign. The unexpected decision was taken by the Taliban government only a few days before the campaign was about to start. With 18 confirmed cases this year (three times the…

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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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A suicide bomber detonates in Afghan capital, killing at least 6 people and injuring 13

September 2, 2024 admin

Police in the Afghan capital say a suicide bomber carried out an attack Monday (September 2, 2024), killing at least six people and injuring 13 others. The blast took place in the southwestern Qala Bakhtiar neighbourhood in Kabul, said Khalid Zadran, spokesman for the Kabul police chief. The dead included one woman, he said, while…

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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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Afghan women filmed singing in protest of ban on their voices

August 28, 2024 admin

An Afghan woman sings in a video showing just a sliver of her face, one of dozens of women taking part in an online protest against a law that bans women from raising their voices in public. Taliban authorities last week announced the law, which includes rules that women’s faces, bodies and voices should be…

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3 Years On, US Still Hunts Attackers Who Killed Americans During Afghanistan Exit

August 25, 2024 admin

Three years after the suicide bomber attack at Afghanistan’s Abbey Gate that killed 13 US service personnel and about 170 Afghan civilians, the network behind the perpetrator is “pretty degraded” but not eliminated, the Pentagon’s civilian commando chief said. “A lot of allied and partner disruptions” of the ISIS-K network have reduced its “capability to…

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Taliban have deliberately deprived 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling through bans, says UNESCO

August 15, 2024 admin

Afghan primary school girls make their way to home near the Shuhada lake in Kabul on March 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The Taliban have deliberately deprived 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling through bans, a U.N. agency said on Thursday (August 15, 2024). Afghanistan is the only country in the world with bans…

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