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...
30 Dec, 2024, 03.47 PM IST
Pakistan military says 28 dead in two militant attacksTwo militant attacks in northwest Pakistan on Monday resulted in a tragic toll of 28 lives, including 10 soldiers and civilians, including ...
16 Jul, 2024, 06.40 PM IST
Foreign aid drops sharply as Taliban abuses jeopardise the Afghan health system, group saysHuman Rights Watch has reported that Afghanistan's public health system has been severely impacted by a sharp reduction in foreign assistan...
12 Feb, 2024, 01.52 PM IST
Taliban rule of Afghanistan is open-ended, their chief spokesman says as they begin year 3 in powerThe Taliban view their rule of Afghanistan as open-ended, drawing legitimacy from Islamic law and facing no significant threat, their chief...
15 Aug, 2023, 10.06 PM IST
Taliban plans to turn former foreign bases into special economic zonesThe acting commerce minister had told Reuters in December that his ministry was working on the plan for former American bases and would sub...
19 Feb, 2023, 06.12 PM IST
Taliban ban Voice of America, RFE/RL for one-sided broadcastsThe Voice of America television program, known as Ashna TV, which had previously been broadcast on the Tolo TV, TOLONews, and Lamar TV chan...
02 Dec, 2022, 09.05 AM IST
Afghanistan could face severe food crisis in harsh winterThe Taliban, whose financial reserves came from illegal activities, are proving completely incapable of funding social services and food as...
13 Nov, 2021, 09.04 AM IST
A rebel, a bureaucrat: The women who stayed in AfghanistanAmiri, a mother of six, retained her senior position as the director of the ministry's Quality and Safety Department after the collapse of ...
05 Nov, 2021, 01.13 PM IST
Taliban-run Kabul municipality to female workers: Stay homeOn Sunday, just over a dozen women staged a protest outside the ministry, holding up signs calling for the participation of women in public...
19 Sep, 2021, 04.05 PM IST
Afghans with ties to U.S. who could not get out now live in fearThere are also potentially hundreds of thousands of other Afghans — aid agency workers, officials from the defunct government, media employ...
04 Sep, 2021, 11.55 AM IST
Afghan female anchor Beheshta Arghand flees country after interview with Taliban leaderArghand, who worked for TOLOnews, interviewed Mawlawi Abdulhaq Hemad, a high-ranking Taliban representative in mid-August.
30 Aug, 2021, 08.37 PM IST
Afghanistan to run out of medical supplies soon, says WHOThe WHO said that health kits containing essential supplies, medicine for hospitals, nutritional food for acutely malnourished children and...
28 Aug, 2021, 05.13 PM IST
Taliban warns of 'consequences' if August 31 deadline for US-led troop withdrawal is extendedSpeaking to ‘Sky News' in Doha, Qatar, Taliban spokesperson Dr Suhail Shaheen stated that the month-end deadline was a "red line", as any e...
23 Aug, 2021, 07.02 PM IST
A week into Taliban rule, one city’s glimpse of what the future may hold“I said that our jihad is not with the municipality; our jihad is against the occupiers and those who defend the occupiers,” Elias told The...
16 Aug, 2021, 10.23 AM IST
Afghans intrigued at 'being sold out' as cities handed over to Taliban"I never imagined that Kandahar would be taken so easily," she said echoing a sentiment made by Afghans across the country when the Taliban...
15 Aug, 2021, 06.41 PM IST
On the frontline: Afghan woman governor recruits anti-Taliban militia"Homeland... I sacrifice my life for you," the song goes -- and, these days, she is asking her constituents to do just that.
06 Aug, 2021, 02.18 PM IST
- Taliban not to release S Korean hostages
Afghanistan's Taliban has decided not to free any of 21 South Korean hostages.
12 Aug, 2007, 09.41 AM IST