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TALIBAN MORALITY POLICE
15 security officials killed in militant attack in northwest PakistanThe incident took place on Saturday in the northwest district of Bannu where an explosive-laden vehicle approaching a police post was fired...- Taliban morality enforcers arrest men for having the wrong hairstyle or skipping mosque, UN saysA UN report reveals the Taliban's morality police in Afghanistan are detaining men for hairstyles and barbers for non-compliant haircuts. D...
- How the Taliban restrict women's lives in AfghanistanThe Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have imposed strict Islamic laws on women, severely restricting their education and work opportuniti...
- 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...
- UNESCO-listed musical instrument stifled in AfghanistanSakhi continues to craft rubabs, Afghanistan's national musical instrument, despite a Taliban ban on music. The Taliban's restrictions have...
- Afghan Taliban vow to implement media ban on images of living thingsAfghanistan's Taliban morality ministry pledged Monday to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, w...
- 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...
- View: Pakistan’s duplicity will inspire home-grown terroristsA major reason why Pakistan has been facing increasing terrorist attacks inside the country is its continued pursuit of duplicity in the fi...
- What kept Iran protests going after first spark?The death of Mahsa Amini, who had been picked up by Iran's morality police for her allegedly loose headscarf, or hijab, has triggered darin...
- A harsh new reality for Afghan women and girls in Taliban-run schoolsThe new government has said that some form of education for girls and women will be permitted, but those parameters have not been clearly d...
- Taliban seize women’s ministry building for use by religious policeThe conversion of the building in Kabul, the country’s capital, suggested at least a symbolic slapping down of a ministry that had come to ...
- Taliban suicide bomber blows himself up in Pakistan; 3 killed, 20 injuredThe attack targeted a Frontier Corps (FC) checkpost on the Mastung road in Quetta, the provincial capital, Deputy Inspector General of Quet...
- View: Progress on women's rights has been hard fought - now everything is at risk under the TalibanOne major concern is the future of the many women's rights organisations and other civil society groups that have been operating in Afghani...
- Images from Kabul airport reminds me of Kandahar horror: IC814 pilotIC814 was heading from Kathmandu to New Delhi on December 24, 1999 -- with 179 passengers and 11 crew members on board -- when it was hijac...
- Billions spent on Afghan army ultimately benefited TalibanThe Taliban captured an array of modern military equipment when they overran Afghan forces who failed to defend district centers. Bigger ga...
- Chaos as thousands flee Afghanistan after Taliban takeoverThe country's Western-trained security forces collapsed or fled in the face of an insurgent offensive that tore through the country in just...
- As cities fall in Afghanistan, the propaganda war growsIn three days, at least five provincial capitals have been seized by the Taliban, in a ruthless land offensive that has led many local offi...
- Blast in Afghan capital as Taliban battle government forces in south, westThe blast near a National Directorate of Security compound came hours after a car bomb and clashes near Kabul's diplomatic district, in whi...
- Indian writer Sushmita Banerjee shot dead in Afghanistan by militantsA senior police official said Banerjee, also known as Sayed Kamala, was working as a health worker in Paktika and had been filming the live...
- Militants kill 10 Afghan soldiers in 2 attacksThe last major attack in the Kabul was a suicide bombing against a NATO convoy in May that killed 18 people, including six NATO troops.
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