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...
14 Dec, 2023, 02.24 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
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, 02.25 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
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...
19 May, 2022, 07.33 PM IST
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...
08 May, 2022, 10.31 PM IST
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...
07 May, 2022, 03.32 PM IST
Taliban bars government employees without beards from work: SourcesThree sources said that representatives from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice were instructing all governm...
28 Mar, 2022, 04.52 PM IST
Thousands of Afghan girls return to school as Taliban end banDespite the schools reopening, barriers to girls returning to education remain, with many families suspicious of the Taliban and reluctant ...
23 Mar, 2022, 08.46 AM 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
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
Taliban brutalities against women go unreportedThe interpretation and implementation of Islamic law in the most regressive fashion by the Taliban have forced women in Afghan towns and ci...
16 Sep, 2021, 11.01 AM 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
Taliban say women can study at university but classes must be segregatedThe minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, said the new Taliban government, named last week, would "start building the country on what exists today"...
12 Sep, 2021, 08.56 PM IST
My statement on Taliban deliberately distorted, used as 'click bait': Mehbooba MuftiEarlier, Mehbooba told reporters in Srinagar that the image of Taliban in its first term was against humanity and human rights, 'this time ...
09 Sep, 2021, 04.18 PM IST
Many Afghans feel United States is leaving them at mercy of resurgent Taliban"International forces' intervention was like a light in a dark night," Amina, 32, a teacher at a girls school in the northern province of K...
15 Apr, 2021, 05.59 PM IST
- Not much difference between RSS and Taliban: Digvijaya Singh
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh, a known RSS baiter, has equated the saffron outfit with the Taliban.
07 Jan, 2013, 10.19 PM IST