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'2.8 million female students enrolled in schools,' Taliban FM saysAfghanistan's Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi states that 2.8 million women and girls are currently enrolled in educational institutions...12 Oct, 2025, 07.04 PM IST- Taliban slaps smartphone ban in Kandahar schoolsTaliban authorities in Kandahar, Afghanistan, have implemented a ban on smartphones in schools, affecting students, teachers, and staff. Th...19 Jun, 2025, 12.40 AM IST
- Taliban deputy tells leader there is no excuse for education bans on Afghan women and girlsSher Abbas Stanikzai, a senior Taliban official, has publicly called on the group's leadership to lift bans on education for Afghan women a...19 Jan, 2025, 12.58 PM IST
- Taliban's decrees on Afghan women cost country over USD 1 billion annuallyUS special envoy for Afghan women, Rina Amiri, highlighted that the Taliban's restrictions on women in Afghanistan cost the nation over $1 ...11 Mar, 2024, 01.29 PM IST
- Taliban slam ‘baseless and biased’ UN report suggesting rifts and conflict within their ranksKey figures, such as the Taliban’s main spokesman, have set up offices in the south of Kandahar. Monumental decrees such as those excluding...11 Jun, 2023, 05.00 PM IST
- Afghan universities reopen but women still barredThe university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on women since the Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021 and has sparked g...06 Mar, 2023, 06.33 PM IST
- Taliban fighters thrash women at rally in KabulThe rally was comprised of nearly 40 women as they marched and gathered outside the education ministry building, as they chanted slogans li...13 Aug, 2022, 05.51 PM IST
- Taliban shut down schools for girls just hours after they reopenedThe education ministry offered no coherent explanation even as officials held a ceremony in the capital to mark the start of the new academ...24 Mar, 2022, 12.54 AM IST
- View: Uncertain future of women’s rights in AfghanistanHistorically, women in Afghanistan enjoyed liberty and exercised all rights. It is as early as 1919 that Afghan women had their right to vo...29 Nov, 2021, 12.07 PM IST
- 100 days of Taliban in Afghanistan: Islamic Emirate still seeking international recognitionCurrently, it is reported that eleven countries, including Iran, Pakistan, China, Russia, Turkey, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhst...24 Nov, 2021, 11.37 AM IST
- Russia, China, Pakistan urge Hamid Karzai, Abdullah to form inclusive govtSeveral countries have been reiterating the Taliban to form an inclusive government in Afghanistan but the group continue to crack down on ...22 Sep, 2021, 08.46 AM IST
- Taliban: Women can study in gender-segregated universitiesEducation minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, said female university students would be required to wear a hijab but did not elaborate on whether ...12 Sep, 2021, 09.11 PM IST
- Lashkar-e-Taeba hand likely in abduction of Indian priest in HeratNo group has claimed responsibility for the abduction that occurred on Monday afternoon but the needle of suspicion points to LeT.04 Jun, 2014, 04.38 AM IST
- India’s developmental efforts in Afghanistan get US endorsementThe US may not be keen on India playing a role in training the Afghan Army or the Afghan police, but there is support in Washington for Ind...20 Apr, 2010, 04.36 AM IST
- Krishna 'goofs up' on Taliban, govt denies itConfusion prevailed after foreign minister S M Krishna was quoted as saying by a US daily that India favoured a "political settlement" with...25 Sep, 2009, 03.56 AM IST
- Islamabad allegations baseless, says KabulAfghanistan has rubbished Pakistan’s claims of India’s alleged backing of insurgents in Balochistan and has vowed to step up counter-terror...29 Jul, 2009, 02.08 AM IST
- NCERT trains Afghan academiciansNational Council of Educational Research and Training has organised a 40-day workshop for academicians from Afghanistan.11 Oct, 2007, 11.42 AM IST
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