Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Taliban’s new rule of women donning Burqa sets them back in economic and education; women rights activists

Taliban’s new rule of women donning Burqa sets them back in economic and education; women rights activists Afghanistan’s Taliban government has requested ladies to cover themselves for re-visitation of their past rule and to limit ladies’ investment in the public arena. The announcement, gave by the Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the … Read more

Pakistan calls for saving 97% Afghans on brink of poverty

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Recalling warnings by global agencies, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi asserted on Wednesday that 97 per cent of the Afghan population would plunge into poverty in the next six months if immediate measures were not taken, Radio Pakistan reported. Read more: Afghanistan’s SOS call Pakistan is hosting an extraordinary session of the Organisation of Islamic … Read more

Thousands of Afghans deported from Iran to Taliban rule

ISLAM QALA, Afghanistan: Iran is sending tens of thousands of Afghan migrants back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan every week despite the threat of famine, aid agencies and witnesses say, with many Afghans alleging they have been mistreated by Iranian authorities. During decades of conflict, millions of Afghans have crossed into their western neighbour seeking to escape … Read more

Afghan women should not be permitted to work beside men, senior Taliban

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Afghan women must not be permitted to work together with men, a senior figure in the ruling Taliban said, a position which, if formally applied, would efficiently bar them from the occupation in government offices, banks, media companies, and beyond.  Waheedullah Hashimi, a senior figure stated that the group would completely contrivance its form of … Read more