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An Afghan Woman Activist’s Visit to Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan

Amid Afghanistan's turbulent transition under Taliban rule, Zerka Malyar, a former Kabul prosecutor and advocate for women’s rights, embarked on a bold mission. Their objective: to advocate for the resumption of girls’ education in the country and confront Taliban officials on critical issues of women’s civil liberties. Malyar and her team sought to confront the Taliban on the critical issue …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Taliban believe Afghanistan rule is ‘open-ended’, don’t plan to lift ban on female education

The Hindu

The Taliban view their rule of Afghanistan as open-ended, drawing legitimacy from Islamic law and facing no significant threat, their chief spokesman said in an interview marking the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of the country. "It will serve for as long as it can and as long as the emir isn’t removed for doing something that goes against …

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1 year, 4 months ago

2 Years of Structural Violence and Humanitarian Crisis Under the Taliban

The Diplomat

The Taliban chose to mark the second anniversary of their return to power, on August 15, 2023, with much pomp and show. Although still unrecognized by almost all countries of the world and reeling from an acute and unceasing financial crisis and lack of ability to govern the country, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid chose the occasion to interact with the …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Taliban slam ‘baseless and biased’ UN report suggesting rifts and conflict within their ranks

Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban condemned on Sunday a “baseless and biased” report from the U.N. Security Council highlighting rifts within the group’s ranks. A report — issued earlier in June — by the U.N. Security Council’s Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team said that the Taliban governance structures remain “highly exclusionary, Pashtun-centred and repressive” toward all forms of opposition. The …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

The Hindu

A rare public show of division within the ranks of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban emerged in recent days when Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, a powerful government figure, gave a speech seen as implicit criticism of the movement's reclusive supreme leader. “Monopolizing power and hurting the reputation of the entire system are not to our benefit,” Mr. Haqqani said, according to video …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — A rare public show of division within the ranks of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban emerged in recent days when Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, a powerful government figure, gave a speech seen as implicit criticism of the movement’s reclusive supreme leader. The Taliban have typically dealt with internal differences behind the scenes, and Haqqani’s comments “are a major escalation,” said …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

The Independent

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1 year, 10 months ago

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

India Today

A rare public show of division within the ranks of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban emerged in recent days when Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, a powerful government figure, gave a speech seen as an implicit criticism of the movement’s reclusive supreme leader. The Taliban have typically dealt with internal differences behind the scenes, and Haqqani’s comments “are a major escalation,” said Michael …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Aid chief: Taliban decrees against women paralyzing NGO work

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s “internal debates and extreme decrees” are paralyzing humanitarian work in Afghanistan, the head of a major aid agency told The Associated Press on Sunday, after he arrived on a week-long trip to talk to Taliban leaders about reversing a ban on women working for national and international non-governmental groups. “They all say that they want …

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2 years ago

Afghanistan: Male students walk out in protest after Taliban bans women from universities

Op India

A day after the Taliban regime in Sharia-governed Afghanistan banned women students from universities, several male students at the Nangarhar University in Jalalabad and at Kandahar University in Afghanistan reportedly staged a protest and expressed solidarity with the women. Male students at Nangarhar university are walking away from their exam in a show of solidarity with the female students to …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Taliban put up posters in Kandahar: 'Women without hijab trying to look like animals'

Firstpost

Despite promises made by the Taliban to reinstate a softer version of their previous harsh system of governance, women of Afghanistan have been living under stringent restrictions since the return of the group in August The Taliban’s religious police have put up posters across the southern Afghan city of Kandahar saying that Muslim women who do not wear an Islamic …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Afghanistan’s girls lament continued closure of high schools

Al Jazeera

Afghan girls, who have been confined to their homes, urge the Taliban not to snatch their right to education. At a news conference last month, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, said it “has been very disappointing to see some steps being taken backwards” by the Taliban, who in the 1990s were the only leaders to ever …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Opinion | Those praising the Taliban must know, it is still committing brutal atrocities

India TV News

I was surprised to find several supporters of Taliban in our country, who are proudly claiming that Taliban’s victory will boost the confidence of Muslims across the world. One of them is Maulana Sajjad Nomani, member of All India Muslim Personal Law Board, who has lauded Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. In my prime time show ‘Aaj Ki Baat’ on Wednesday …

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3 years, 4 months ago

In pics: the dizzying worlds of trauma and terror in Afghanistan

The Hindu

Within a few weeks, the Taliban militants have taken major cities such as Kabul, Herat, Kandahar and Mazar-i-Sharif- knocking Afghanistan into the dizzying worlds of trauma, terror and violence. An internally displaced child from the northern provinces, who fled from his home due to the fighting between Taliban and Afghan Security Forces, sleeps in a public park that is being …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Taliban launch multi-pronged assault on northern Afghan city

India Today

The Taliban launched a multi-pronged assault early Saturday on Mazar-e-Sharif, a major city in northern Afghanistan defended by powerful former warlords. The Taliban captured much of southern Afghanistan in recent days in a rapid offensive that has raised fears of a full takeover less than three weeks before the US is set to withdraw its last troops. The withdrawal of …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Taliban imposing ‘horrifying’ human rights curbs, UN chief warns

Al Jazeera

Guterres calls on the Taliban to halt its advance, says they are imposing severe restrictions on human rights in areas of Afghanistan under its control – targeting women and journalists in particular. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the Taliban to immediately halt its offensive in Afghanistan, warning that the country “is spinning out of control”. He also …

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3 years, 6 months ago

‘The Taliban will come ... 100%.’ As U.S. withdraws, Kandahar faces a takeover

LA Times

Off a two-lane highway on this city’s northern edge lies a cemetery for Arab Al Qaeda fighters and their families, all killed in the waning days of 2001, when America first unleashed its wrath on Afghanistan. The Taliban will come into the city — 100%.” Two decades into the guerrilla war that has wrecked the worn-out towns and villages of …

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An Afghan Woman Activist’s Visit to Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan

Taliban believe Afghanistan rule is ‘open-ended’, don’t plan to lift ban on female education

2 Years of Structural Violence and Humanitarian Crisis Under the Taliban

Taliban slam ‘baseless and biased’ UN report suggesting rifts and conflict within their ranks

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

Aid chief: Taliban decrees against women paralyzing NGO work

Afghanistan: Male students walk out in protest after Taliban bans women from universities

Taliban put up posters in Kandahar: 'Women without hijab trying to look like animals'

Afghanistan’s girls lament continued closure of high schools

Opinion | Those praising the Taliban must know, it is still committing brutal atrocities

In pics: the dizzying worlds of trauma and terror in Afghanistan

Taliban launch multi-pronged assault on northern Afghan city

Taliban imposing ‘horrifying’ human rights curbs, UN chief warns

‘The Taliban will come ... 100%.’ As U.S. withdraws, Kandahar faces a takeover