Page 9 - Latest Updates on Taliban
Taliban leader claims women provided with comfortable, prosperous life
The statement from Hibatullah Akhundzada was made public ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday, which will be celebrated later this week in Afghanistan and other Islamic countries
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Women's public presence in Afghanistan totally erased by Taliban: UN
Irene Khan said in a report that women's rights groups play an important role in the struggle for gender equality and in promoting the agency of women
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On terror firma
Shahbaz Taseer's book is a gripping account of his abduction by Islamic militants in Lahore and years of captivity under the Taliban in Afghanistan-a nightmare from which he miraculously emerged alive
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Taliban's treatment of Afghan women may amount to gender apartheid: UN
An United Nations expert on Monday said the Taliban's treatment of Afghanistan's women and girls may amount to gender apartheid
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Pak-Afghan rift widens after Taliban minister trashes Durand line as border
New Delhi, June 19: The Taliban administration's Defence Minister Maulvi Muhammad Yaqub Mujahid has said that the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, called the Durand Line, is merely a 'line'
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Hundreds of Afghans languish in Albania in a prolonged US visa process
Almost two years since he fled Afghanistan to escape the Taliban takeover, Firooz Mashoof is still haunted by the memory of his last day in Kabul the bus that took him to the airport
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Taliban seeks further aid from UN for Afghan people in different fields
Hanif while describing the humanitarian aid as vital but not enough, said that the United Nations should launch development projects in Afghanistan
UN in talks with Taliban over handover of education programmes, classes
As per UNICEF, it had received assurances from the Taliban's Education Ministry that its community-based classes, which educate 500,000 students, would continue while they discussed the matter
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Taliban back to exclusionary, Pashtun-centred policies of late 90s: Report
An annual report by the United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team for the UNSC Committee has criticized what it considers the return of Taliban to exclusionary policies
Taliban slam 'baseless and biased' UN report suggesting rifts within ranks
The Taliban condemned on Sunday a baseless and biased report from the UN Security Council highlighting rifts within the group's ranks
Threat of terrorism from Taliban rising in Afghanistan, region: UN report
The link between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan remains strong and symbiotic, according to a UN report
UNICEF concerned by Taliban move to bar int'l NGOs from education sector
UNICEF said it is deeply concerned by reports of Taliban pushing out international organizations from Afghanistan's education sector
No infiltration of Taliban into Kashmir post-Kabul fall: GOC Chinar Corps
The apprehensions about the influx of Taliban fighters into Kashmir after the fall of Kabul in 2021 did not materialise and no Afghani Taliban has infiltrated into the valley
Afghanistan's acting FM Amir Khan Muttaqi terms world's sanctions 'cruel'
Muttaqi said, "The world countries should listen, they should not pursue their cases under the pretext that these people are being harmed here"
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Here's how a covert relationship with Taliban backfired for US ally Pak
"Pakistan saw the Taliban as deeply connected to the TTP and able to persuade it to stop its attacks"
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Taliban appoints new Afghan ambassador, MEA says no formal notice received
There are also concerns about how India would react if a Taliban-approved dispensation at the Afghan Embassy in Delhi were to act against Afghans in India
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Afghanistan facing catastrophic food crisis, says World Bank report
Afghanistan is among one of the seven countries which face a catastrophic level of food crisis, the World Bank highlighted in its report, Khaama Press reported
Taliban asks Pakistan to observe tolerance in Ex- PM Imran Khan case
Taliban government has expressed its dismay at civil war-like situation in Pakistan. The two Islamic nations share a 2,640-km long boundary
China pulls off its Afghan investment gambit after a delayed start
China is ready to help Afghanistan realise self-reliance, peace, stability, development and prosperity at an early date, said Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang
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UN report urges Afghanistan's Taliban to end floggings, executions
A UN report strongly criticized the Taliban for carrying out public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing power in Afghanistan, and called on the country's rulers to halt such practices
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