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US cuts foreign aid, orders Afghan women scholars to return amid Taliban restrictions: Reports
India | March 09, 2025 8:37 ISTUS aid funding had previously enabled thousands of Afghan women to study abroad or continue their education online, but many of these programs are now suspended.
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Taliban urges India to grant visas to Afghan businessmen; calls New Delhi a 'key regional player'
World | January 10, 2025 12:02 ISTWhile assuring New Delhi that Afghanistan does not pose a threat to any nation, Taliban has urged India to grant visa to Afghan businessmen, students, patients.
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How India-Afghan Taliban reshaped ties with first high-level talks- How will this impact Pakistan?
News | January 09, 2025 16:13 ISTIndia's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met Afghanistan's Acting FM Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai, marking the first high-level talks between India and the Taliban since their 2021 return to power.
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Allies to adversaries: The deteriorating Pakistan-Afghanistan relations | Explained
Explainers | December 29, 2024 15:41 ISTAfghan Taliban and Pakistan are currently embroiled in a conflict after Islamabad launched strikes on Afghanistan. Pakistan claimed that its strikes intended to punish TTP, which is allegedly involved in conducting attacks in the country.
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Afghan Taliban attacks Pakistan: Pakistani soldier killed, 11 wounded
World | December 29, 2024 18:47 ISTThe relations between Pakistan and Taliban-led Afghanistan have witnessed a downslide in recent times as Islamabad accuses Taliban of failing to control TTP rebels.
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Pakistan attacks Afghanistan: Airstrikes killed 46 people, mostly women and children, claims Taliban
World | December 26, 2024 8:13 ISTThe death count in the bombardment by Pakistani military aircraft in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province on Tuesday mounted to 46. The Taliban government said most of the victims were children and women.
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Pakistan airstrikes Paktika province in Afghanistan, 15 killed, Taliban vows to retaliate
World | December 25, 2024 8:45 ISTWhile Pakistani officials have not officially confirmed the airstrike, security sources close to the military said that the attack was aimed at Taliban hideouts near the border. Meanwhile, the Taliban govt in Afghanistan has vowed to retaliate.
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Afghanistan: Taliban minister of refugees, his bodyguards killed in massive explosion in Kabul
World | December 11, 2024 20:04 ISTDetails about the nature of the explosion and those responsible remain unclear, and the Taliban have not yet issued a statement on the incident.
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Afghan teen Nila Ibrahimi wins International Children’s Peace Prize | Read her daring journey
World | November 20, 2024 13:07 ISTNila Ibrahimi continues to fight for the education rights of all Afghan girls and women who are losing out on valuable schooling due to the discriminatory ban on their education.
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Who is Ikramuddin Kamil, Taliban regime's 'acting consul' in Mumbai, know all about him
World | November 13, 2024 21:41 ISTIkramuddin Kamil, a young Afghan student, who the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is familiar with and who has studied in India for seven years while completing his doctorate from the South Asia University on an MEA scholarship, agreed to function as a diplomat in the Afghan consulate in Mumbai.
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A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan: Hollywood actress Meryl Streep at UN | WATCH
World | September 25, 2024 8:41 ISTMeryl Streep remarked that a female cat had more freedom than a woman in Afghanistan, referring to the Taliban's restrictive rules on women's rights. The group codified a long set of rules governing morality last month, which barred women to sing or show their faces in the public.
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Terrorists shoot 14 people dead in Shiite area of Afghanistan
World | September 13, 2024 18:02 ISTThe terrorist affiliated with the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack even before the confirmation of the shooting by the Afghan Taliban. The attack is one of the deadliest in the country this year.
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IC 814 row: Netflix assures future content will be sensitive to nation's sentiments
September 03, 2024 14:41 ISTThe Vijay Varma-starrer Netflix series IC 814 The Kandahar Hijack has been making headlines on social media for all the wrong reasons. Netflix has now come forward and assured the Centre of content reviewing and also guaranteed that future content will be as per nation's sentiments. Know full story.
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Germany resumes deportations of convicted criminals to Afghanistan for first time since 2021
World | August 30, 2024 13:58 ISTA Kabul-found flight took off from Leipzig in the early hours of Friday with 28 convicted criminals onboard after secret talks with Qatar. Germany had halted deportations to Taliban in 2021, but reversed the decision after a couple of knife attacks that killed several people.
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Taliban codify strict morality laws: Women ordered to cover faces, men required to grow beards
World | August 24, 2024 11:21 ISTThe Taliban have officially implemented a strict morality law in Afghanistan, mandating women to cover their faces and men to grow beards. This law, based on a 2022 decree by the Taliban's supreme leader, will be enforced by the Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue.
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'No voice and bare faces': Taliban's new 'vice' laws impose tighter restrictions on women
World | August 22, 2024 23:32 ISTAfghanistan's new laws issued by the ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” impose fresh curbs on women, such as their voices and bare faces. Women are banned from singing or reading aloud in public and looking at men they are not related to by blood or marriage.
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Afghanistan: Timeline of key moments since Taliban returned to power
World | August 14, 2024 12:46 ISTAugust 15 marks the third anniversary of the Taliban regime's unexpected return to power in Afghanistan. After 20 years of international efforts and billions of dollars spent training the Afghan army, Kabul collapsed swiftly on August 15, 2021, as the US withdrew its remaining troops.
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Taliban disowns many Afghan diplomatic missions abroad, rejects visas issued by Western-backed staff
World | July 30, 2024 14:43 ISTThe Taliban has declared that consular services offered by Afghan missions abroad are no longer valid. They are urging people in these countries to instead seek assistance from embassies and consulates under their control.
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Pakistan: Suspected militants burn girls' school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, third such attack this month
World | May 29, 2024 20:36 ISTPakistan has experienced several fire incidents in recent years. In December, a tragic incident occurred when a woman lost her life and eight animals died in a fire at a cattle pen in Haripur’s Khanpur tehsil.
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US urges Pakistan to exercise restraint after deadly retaliatory airstrikes in Afghanistan
World | March 19, 2024 6:51 ISTPakistan confirmed that it carried out “intelligence-based anti-terrorist operations” inside the border regions of Afghanistan, while the Taliban retaliated by targeting Pakistan's military posts. Islamabad has accused the Taliban of failing to stop terrorists from attacking Pakistan.
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