The fundamentalist movement that regained power in Afghanistan in August 2021 dissolved five key departments of the former US-backed government, including the country’s Human Rights Commission, deeming them unnecessary in the face of a financial crunch, an official said on May 16.
Three explosions rocked a high school in western Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least six people and injuring 11, according to Afghan police officials. The blasts happened at the Abdul Rahim Shahid school in the Shia-dominated west of the city. The number
The Taliban had promised a softer version of the harsh Islamist rule that characterised their first stint in power from 1996 to 2001. However, in latest announcements, the hardline Islamists have imposed sweeping restrictions on freedoms, mostly targeting Afghan girls and women,
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan ordered closure of secondary schools for girls on Wednesday, hours after the schools reopened for the first time since August 2021, when the regime took over the country for a second time. Quoting an official, The Guardian, in
The Taliban will allow girls to return to class when high schools open on March 22. After taking power on August 15, 2021, the Taliban ordered the reopening of boys’ high schools from September 18, but did not mention girls’ schools. Most
The head of the Taliban’s education commission has confirmed a ban on secondary school education for girls, according to a BBC report. Acting Deputy Education Minister Abdul Hakim Hemat told the media company that girls in Afghanistan who want to attend secondary
Poverty is possibly the biggest bane of any society and the Afghanistan poverty risk is one that has galvanised many countries of the world into action. While the European Union has set up aid centres from culturally rich Uzbekistan near the region,
In a move that has the Taliban worried, the IS-K or the Islamic State – Khorasan is nearing and expanding over the Afghanistan borders to create an air of even more extremism that ever before. This comes soon after the UN Secretary
India and United Kingdom have to come together to tackle the long-term effects of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, as it is going to have multi-pronged consequences on both countries. Any instability in the region is going to affect the UK too,
Afghan civilians continue to bear the brunt of the Taliban takeover in the country where humanitarian needs remain critical and widespread among existing and newly displaced populations, the UN agencies said. Some 18 million people in the country need aid assistance and
