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
Meryl Streep stands with Afghan women at UN, says ‘a cat has more freedom than a woman in Kabul’At a UN General Assembly event, actor Meryl Streep called attention to the Taliban's restrictions on Afghan women, likening their lack of r...
24 Sep, 2024, 05.37 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
Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans in AfghanistanIn recent months, the group's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has appeared to take a stronger hand in directing policy. In particula...
16 Feb, 2023, 01.11 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 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...
22 May, 2022, 05.28 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
Taliban order Afghan girls' schools shut hours after reopeningCrestfallen students, back in class for the first time since the Taliban seized power in August last year, tearfully packed up their belong...
23 Mar, 2022, 12.23 PM 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
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
Afghan women outraged by new Taliban restrictions on workA month after gaining control of Afghanistan, the Taliban have started gripping women's rights tight instigating wrath over dramatic loss o...
20 Sep, 2021, 01.39 PM 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
- Pak Army and ISI continue to support Afghan Taliban: Karzai
Over a month after the new Af-Pak policy was unveiled, Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned the US that no success could be achieved in the...
03 Dec, 2010, 01.24 PM IST
- Krishna 'goofs up' on Taliban, govt denies it
Confusion 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
- Bush’s NSA warns Obama of danger that Pakistan is
US President George W Bush’s National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley has said that Pakistan’s increasingly turbulent border region poses t...
08 Jan, 2009, 05.47 AM IST