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Afghan women's future appears bleak with Taliban diktats governing their l
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 21 (ANI): Afghan women are staring at a bleak future due to a number of restrictions imposed by the Taliban governing aspects of their lives within ten months of Afghanistan takeover.
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Haqqani to hold clerics meeting to resolve girls' school issue
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 4 (ANI): Anas Haqqani, a senior member of the Taliban has addressed a gathering in Khost on Wednesday to discuss the prevalent problems pertaining to the ban on secondary girls' schools.
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Experts say Afghan girls banned from schools suffering psychologically
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 4 (ANI): Psychologists have said that the Afghan girl students above grade six, banned from going to schools by the Taliban, are undergoing mental stress due to this move, reported local media.
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Islamic scholars call on Taliban to reopen schools for girls in Afghanista
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 1 (ANI): Islamic scholars at a gathering in Afghanistan's Paktia province called on the Taliban to reopen schools for girls, local media reported.
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Taliban reneged on promise to reopen Afghan girls' schools: Blinken
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 30 (ANI): The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed his disappointment over the fact that the Taliban has failed to fulfil their promises about reopening schools for girls in Afghanistan.
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US Envoy, Abdullah Abdullah discuss plight of Afghan girls'
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 23 (ANI): The United States Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West raised the issue of reopening of girls' schools in Afghanistan with the head of the former council of peace and national reconciliation of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah.
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Pakistan's Mufti Taqi Usman writes to Taliban for reopening schools for Af
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 22 (ANI): Following the closure of girls' schools by the Taliban and the world voicing out for justice for women and their rights in Afghanistan, another cleric of Pakistan Mufti Taqi Usman calls out Taliban to reopen schools for Afghan girls.
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UNHCR expresses concern over Taliban decree banning girls from schools
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 13 (ANI): United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed concern over the closure of secondary schools for Afghan girls and their safety.
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UN envoy calls upon Taliban to allow girls' education
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 10 (ANI): The UN's envoy has called for urgent steps from the Taliban regime to ensure that all Aghan girls are able to attend schools in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan: Clerics call on Taliban to reopen girls' schools, says no leg
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 8 (ANI): Religious scholars once again called on the Taliban to reopen all girls' schools in Afghanistan's capital Kabul and said there was no legal justification for banning girls above sixth grade from going to school.
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Activists raise concern over closure of Afghan girls' schools above grade
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 8 (ANI): A month-old decision of captured Afghanistan by Taliban to stop the education of girls from grade 6 onwards, is now attracting condemnation within as well as outside the country.
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US special envoy West speaks with Hamid Karzai on reopening schools for gi
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 4 (ANI): The US special envoy for Afghanistan, Thomas West spoke with former president Hamid Karzai and discussed the Afghan people's desire to see girls return to secondary school soonest.
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