Commenting on the progress of Afghan women over the past two decades, Angelina Jolie wrote, "One year ago, Afghan women worked as doctors, teachers, artists, police officers, journalists, judges, lawyers, and elected politicians. Afghan children braved repeated suicide attacks on their schools."
Taliban officials also did not elaborate on what kind of bombing targeted the cleric or say if anyone else had been killed or wounded in the assault.
An Afghan Sikh woman claimed most of the minorities in Afghanistan have no access to education as sending children to schools means "risking their lives". "If a child goes to an educational institute there they will be harassed. Those who want to study, mostly come to India," Kaur said.
The Taliban initially sought to describe the strike as America violating the Doha deal, which also includes a Taliban pledge not to shelter those seeking to attack the U.S. — something al-Zawahri had done for years in internet videos and online screeds.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), in a statement, said an Indian technical team has reached Kabul on Thursday and has been deployed in the embassy there.
The Kabul-based social media user shared a Youtube video in which Quranic verses were allegedly used in a humorous manner by him and his three other colleagues.
The United States will continue to monitor and take steps to increase pressure on the Taliban government to reverse some of its recent decisions in restricting the rights of women and girls, the country has said.
This is the first such visit by the Indian government to Kabul since the Taliban's takeover.
Another explosion hit a mosque in Kabul on Wednesday evening, a spokesman for the capital's commander said, adding at least two people were injured.
A major focus of the discussions was to be on the situation in Afghanistan, especially in dealing with the threat from terrorist groups active in the Taliban-ruled country, people familiar with the meeting said.
Meanwhile, the Afghanistan National Journalists Union said restrictions on access to information is not acceptable.
Owners have been verbally reminded that the rule applies "even if they are husband and wife", according to Riazullah Seerat, a Taliban official at the Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the report said.
Men are not permitted to dine with their family members in family restaurants.
The Taliban previously decided against reopening schools to girls above grade 6, reneging on an earlier promise and opting to appease their hard-line base at the expense of further alienating the international community.
Since the Taliban took over the country in August last year, women of the country have become the greatest sufferers, ban on them from going to work as well as accessing education.
In August 2021, the US left much of the military equipment and weapons at the disposal of the Afghan forces which eventually fell into the hands of the Taliban.
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).
The Taliban does not recognize the British-era Durand Line as the official border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
A Taliban police official in Gereshk, Helmand, told residents that district-level authorities were calling for retaliation and targeting former government officials.
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