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Taliban break promise on higher education for Afghan girlsTaliban rulers unexpectedly decided against reopening schools Wednesday to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on a promise and opting to...
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...
Despite mistrust, Afghan Shiites seek Taliban protectionIt was a sign of the strange, new relationship brought by the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August. The Taliban, Sunni hard-liners w...
India may come face-to-face with Taliban officials on 20thWhile India had its first formal contact with the Taliban in Doha on August 31, the Moscow Format will enable the first formal contact betw...
Qatar's ruler urges world leaders not to boycott TalibanBecause of its unique position, Qatar had hosted direct US-Taliban talks around the American withdrawal from Afghanistan and helped facilit...
Taliban appoint deputy ministers in all-male governmentThe list of deputy ministers signals that the Taliban have not been swayed by the international criticism and that they're doubling down on...
Friction among Taliban pragmatists, hard-liners intensifiesBaradar served as the chief negotiator during talks between the Taliban and the United States that paved the way for the US troop withdrawa...
Javed Akhtar upset with Taliban's comments on women, urges civilised societies to condemn their actionsA Taliban spokesperson recently said that women can't be ministers, should give birth.
Taliban interim government agrees to let foreigners leave AfghanistanAfter the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in mid-August, more than 120,000 people were airlifted from Kabul airport in a US-led evacuat...
US not in a rush to recognise Taliban govt: White HouseThe Taliban announced a caretaker Cabinet led by Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund on Tuesday with key roles being shared by high-profile member...
Taliban choices in new cabinet could hamper recognition by WestAfghanistan's interior ministry went to Sirajuddin Haqqani, head of the Haqqani Network, who is wanted by the United States on terrorism ch...
Taliban name caretaker Cabinet that pays homage to old guardInterim Prime Minister Mullah Hasan Akhund headed the Taliban government in Kabul during the last years of its rule. Mullah Abdul Ghani Bar...
View: What the new Taliban Government in Afghanistan signifiesThe road ahead is not easy. In the current situation, Afghanistan is slowly becoming a country where there is no food, but guns are in abun...
UN-blacklisted Akhund to head Afghanistan govtHailing from the spiritual Taliban heartland of Kandahar, Akhund served as governor of the key province during the group’s brutal first rei...
Afghan government formation by Taliban postponed; to be announced on September 4More than two weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the hardline Islamists are all set to announce the formation of a new governme...
Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar to lead new Afghanistan govt, says local mediaBaradar, who heads the Taliban's political office in Doha, will be joined by Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of late Taliban co-founder Mul...
- Kabul parade attackers arrested
Some of the men involved in an attack on a military parade in Kabul Sunday have been arrested, President Hamid Karzai said in a live televi...