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Taliban say they will close all NGOs employing Afghan womenThe Taliban have ordered the closure of all national and foreign NGOs employing women, threatening to revoke their operating licenses if no...
Taliban leader bans windows overlooking women's areasThe Taliban's supreme leader has issued an order banning the construction of windows in residential buildings that overlook areas used by A...
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 ...
Afghan women fear going out alone due to Taliban decrees on clothing and male guardians, UN saysTaliban have barred women from most areas of public life and stopped girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade as part of harsh mea...
Taliban sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence, says UN reportThe Taliban in Afghanistan are imprisoning women for their safety due to gender-based violence, closing previous state-sponsored women prot...
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...
Taliban claims closure of girl's school "temporary", says not a "permanent ban"Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Abdul Qahar Balkhi said, "this suspension is a temporary suspension, and it is not a permanent ban, it h...
Women not wearing hijab 'trying to look like animals', say Taliban postersSince seizing power in August, the Taliban have imposed harsh restrictions on Afghan women, rolling back the marginal gains they made durin...
Taliban enforcing face-cover order for female TV anchorsAfter the order was announced Thursday, only a handful of news outlets complied with the order. But on Sunday, most female anchors were see...
Afghan Taliban order women TV anchors to cover their facesSeveral female anchors and presenters posted their photos on social media showing them with their faces covered with face masks during pres...
Anger among Afghan women as face veil edict splits TalibanThe decree by the Taliban's hardline leader Hibaitullah Akhunzada even suggested women shouldn't leave their homes unless necessary and out...
Taliban order Afghan women to wear all-covering burqa"They should wear a chadori (head-to-toe burqa) as it is traditional and respectful," said a decree issued by Hibatullah Akhundzada that wa...
In fresh decree, Taliban ban wearing neckties in schools in AfghanistanThe Educational Directorate, the Ministry of Education, Afghanistan in an official letter said that students and teachers are no longer all...
Taliban chief orders ban on poppy cultivation in AfghanistanAfghanistan is the world's biggest producer of poppies, the source of sap that is refined into heroin, and in recent years its production a...
View: How aid to Afghanistan is a dilemma for the westInstead of allaying global apprehensions about the grossly insensitive nature of their bizarre decrees, the Taliban keep on perpetuating th...
- Insurance policy unIslamic, says Deoband fatwa
Deoband's fatwa says that insurance went against tenets of Islam.
- US working to impede Taliban communications: Report
The US is trying to prevent the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan from using radio stations and websites to intimidate civilians and plan...