The Taliban government limited Afghan women’s rights after coming to power in August 2021 with a number of decrees.These include ban of women working or going to school.
The Taliban’s decision to ban women from universities has an effect on Pakistani women studying medicine in Afghanistan.
As a result of threats for her reporting from inside Afghanistan, Mina Akbari fled to Pakistan. But, the journalist says it might be difficult to adaptadapting to life in a new country.
A radio station in the province of Khost has stepped in to broadcast literary programming as girls are not allowed to attend school across Afghanistan
This month, the Taliban’s acting minister of higher education in Afghanistan announced some changes to the country’s education system. Former educators are opposing the revisions, claiming that they are damaging Afghanistan’s educational legacy.
Despite a Taliban ban on the cultivation of all narcotics in April, opium cultivation in Afghanistan increased 32% over the previous year, according to a report from the UN
Zahara Nabi stays in Afghanistan, which is her home. Nabi is firm in her will to fight for her rights even though many Afghans, both men and women, have fled the return of Taliban control.
A secret Afghan female platoon helped American forces in driving out the Taliban during the Afghan War.Over 40 of those commandos are now present in the country.
From Afghanistan, where they had lived for generations, more than 50 Afghan Sikhs recently arrived in India. They were among the Sikh community’s last to leave the conflict-torn country due to the violence that also targeted them
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan, which borders Afghanistan, there is a growing anti-Taliban sentiment as many fear that the Pakistani Taliban could make a comeback. The talks between the militants and the Pakistani army have drawn criticism from residents who claim that they jeopardise the region’s ten-year-old peace