Taliban prevents beardless government employees entry to offices
World | March 29, 2022 10:58 ISTThe Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, however, denied government employees having been stopped at the gate
The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, however, denied government employees having been stopped at the gate
Since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August last year, 40 per cent of media outlets in the country, while an estimated 6,400 journalists are currently unemployed, according to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Dozens of women who arrived at Kabul's international airport Friday to board domestic and international flights were told they couldn't do so without a male guardian, said officials.
The official Bakhtar News Agency announced Wang Yi will meet with Taliban leaders “to discuss various issues including the extension of political relations, economic, and transit cooperation.”
Girls were banned from attending schools in Afghanistan after the Islamic outfit-sized power in August last year. Since taking power in Afghanistan, the Taliban had rolled back women's rights in virtually every area.
A Taliban police official in Gereshk, Helmand, told residents that district-level authorities were calling for retaliation and targeting former government officials.
Siddiqui, 38, was on assignment in Afghanistan when he was killed on July 16 last year. The journalist was covering clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar city.
Khalid Payenda, 40, had served as Afghanistan's Finance Minister in the Ashraf Ghani government. He blamed himself and fellow Afghans for the swift collapse of the democratically elected government to Taliban.
The United Nations has called the situation "a food insecurity and malnutrition crisis of unparalleled proportions."
India had sent a proposal to Islamabad on October 7 seeking the transit facility to send 50,000 tonnes of wheat to the people of Afghanistan via Pakistan. It received a positive response on November 24. Following this, both sides were in touch to finalise the modalities for the transportation of the shipment.
The discussion, between PM Modi and the delegation, also included the difficulties faced by them in Afghanistan and the help extended by the government in bringing them to India safely.
Today marks six months since the Afghan capital of Kabul was ceded to the Taliban with the sudden and secret departure of the country's US-backed president.
International funding to Afghanistan was suspended and billions of dollars of the country's assets abroad, mostly in the United States, were frozen after the Taliban took control of the country in mid-August.
The report says the dreaded Islamic State terrorist group aims to position itself as the “chief rejectionist force” in Afghanistan, expands into neighbouring Central and South Asian countries and is viewed by the Taliban as its primary armed threat.
One person was missing after the late Sunday avalanche near the Pakistani border, said Najibullah Hanif, who heads Kunar province's information and culture department. The landslide followed a day of heavy snow.
After their evacuation from the Taliban-led nation, the women's team is looking to compete in Victoria’s senior women’s competition this year and held its first training session in Melbourne on Saturday.
On Tuesday, Amnesty International said that the arrest of the two journalists was "unjustifiable" and called on the Islamic Emirate to release them.
As per details, families of at least 150 victims of the 9/11 attacks have staked claim to at least $7 billion in frozen assets held by the Federal Reserves of New York.
According to the law of the country, selling organs or parts are the body is illegal, but these families say that they have no other options to survive.
A Taliban intelligence official in western Herat said that the bomb was attached to the van's fuel tank. He spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to release the information to the public.
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