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Taliban imposes new restrictions on women, bans public speaking

With the enactment of new laws on "vice and virtue" by a government ministry that forbids women's voices and bare…

4 weeks ago

“Most egregious systems of oppression in recent history”: UN Chief Guterres on restrictions against Afghan woman

United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern over the situation in Afghanistan, likening it to some of the most…

3 months ago

UN officials raise concern on situation of women in Afghanistan

As Afghan women continue to remain deprived of their basic rights, United Nations officials have once again raised concerns about…

7 months ago

Restrictions imposed on Afghan girls will increase child marriages by 25 pc: UN agencies

United Nations agencies have said that the restrictions imposed by the Taliban on women and girls will increase the number…

7 months ago

Afghanistan has turned into “graveyard of girls’ hopes” under Taliban: UN

Amid restrictions imposed on women, and girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban, the United Nations has said that the country…

8 months ago

US special envoy on Afghanistan to visit India this week

The US special representative for Afghanistan, Thomas West, will be travelling to India this week to hold consultations on working…

9 months ago

Taliban’s decrees on Afghan women cost country over USD 1 billion annually

US special envoy for Afghan women, Rina Amiri, emphasised that the Taliban's restrictive decrees on women and girls in Afghanistan…

9 months ago

Islamic State in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India– will its influence decline in 2024?

With the two years of Taliban reign, experts deliberate whether Afghanistan would remain a state providing safe havens to terror…

1 year ago

Taliban slams ‘abusive’ crackdown on Afghan refugees, asks Pak to show ‘magnanimity, Islamic brotherhood’

Pakistan is using “threats, abuse, detention and coercion” to throw out Afghan refugees as the deadline for them to voluntarily…

1 year ago

Taliban slams Pakistan’s riot order on refugees, calls expulsion ‘inhumane, unfair and barbaric’

The Taliban interim government in Afghanistan has slammed Pakistan's decsion to expel refugees as  “inhumane, unfair and barbaric”. Interim Defence Minister,…

1 year ago

Afghan refugees could face serious human rights violations as Pakistan threatens to use force to evict them

Afghans are facing yet another crisis in Pakistan. Irked over Afghan Taliban’s refusal to rein in Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) cadres operating…

1 year ago

India joins Moscow format talks in Kazan as group focuses on rising ISIS threat, return of ‘extra-regional players’ in Afghanistan

A miffed Russia has expressed its concerns about "attempts by extra-regional players to become more active in the Afghan direction"…

1 year ago

Afghan embassy in India suspends operations, staff left

The Afghan embassy in India has suspended all operations after the ambassador and other senior diplomats left the country for…

1 year ago

Pakistan to repatriate Afghan refugees en masse as ties with Taliban turn toxic

Escalating tension with the neighbouring Taliban government, Pakistan has decided to evict all of Afghan refugees – numbering 1.1 million.…

1 year ago

UNSC report says Pakistani Taliban stronger because of regime change in Kabul

A new report by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) says that the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has "emboldened" the…

1 year ago

Kabul cool to Pakistani overtures fearing revival of Islamabad-Washington nexus in the region

In the ever-shifting sands of the Af-Pak theatre, the Taliban has urged the US to not create obstacles in the…

1 year ago

Is defining an inclusive model in post-Taliban Afghanistan futile?

The recently concluded 22nd summit of the SCO Council of Heads of States, though held in a virtual format, gushed…

1 year ago

Taliban keeps China on tenterhooks over lithium mining contracts in Afghanistan

The frenzied exit of US troops in 2021 brought the Chinese rushing in to fill the vaccume in Afghanistan. The…

1 year ago

Afghanistan, Pakistan relations slide downhill as war of words erupts over TTP terror

The verbal war between Pakistan and Afghanistan over terrorism and the implementation of the Doha Agreement intensified over the weekend.…

1 year ago

India becomes major wheat supplier of Afghanistan using Iran’s Chabahar port

Ten thousand tonnes of Indian wheat reached Afghanistan's western Herat province. On Monday, the World Food Program (WFP) posted a…

1 year ago

Kabul’s efforts to pacify Pakistan by relocating TTP fighters triggers protests

The Afghan regime's announcement of the relocation of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) cadre from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the Durand Line, to…

2 years ago