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Taliban failed to form "an inclusive political system": EU
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], August 14 (ANI): The Taliban which seized power in Afghanistan a year ago and formed a new government, failed to form "an inclusive political system" and continue to violate human rights, the EU External Action Service (EEAS) said on Sunday.
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Pakistan: Attack on police checkpost in South Waziristan, 1 personnel kill
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], August 14 (ANI): A Pakistani police constable was killed while another was injured after an attack on a police post near South Waziristan tribal district, local media reported on Sunday.
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Pakistan's Lt Gen Faiz Hameed's surprise transfer Bajwa's tactic to be in
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 14 (ANI): Pakistan's Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed's surprise transfer discloses that the Pakistani Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa is continually devising tactics to reconnect with the US which seeks a visible role in Afghanistan.
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Taliban to bring new curriculum in Afghanistan for girls' education
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): After backlash by the international community over the neglect of girls' education in Afghanistan, the Taliban have created a "directorate of academic curriculum", local media reported on Saturday.
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Anti-Narcotic Task Force busts drug nexus between Afghanistan, Punjab, arr
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 13 (ANI): The Anti-Narcotic Task Force (ANTF) unit of the Crime Branch unearthed the main link of the drug trafficking nexus operating from Afghanistan to Punjab and arrested one accused in this connection, said the officials on Saturday.
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Heavy rains, flash floods swamp eastern Afghanistan's Logar province
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): Torrential rains and flash floods have killed at least 21 people including women and children and injured scores in Afghanistan's Logar, Wardak and Khost provinces, local media reported Saturday.
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Future of women and girls in Afghanistan 'bleak', warn UN experts
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): UN experts on Friday called on the international community yet again to restore the declining human rights situation in Afghanistan and warned that the future of the country is bleak for its women and girls.
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Indian Embassy in Afghanistan 'expected to increase operations'
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): The newly 're-opened' Indian embassy in Kabul is expected to increase its operations, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, Abdul Qahar Balkhi announced on Twitter today, reported TOLOnews.
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Four people injured as bomb fitted in vehicle exploded in Kabul
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): At least four people including two Islamic Emirate forces were injured in an explosion that took place near an electronic Identity card centre in Kabul on Saturday.
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Afghanistan's media in doom as country loses nearly 60 pc journalists unde
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 12 (ANI): Expressing concerns over the situation of journalists in Afghanistan, Reporters Without Borders in its report said that country has lost 39.59 per cent of its media outlets and almost 60 per cent of its journalists since the Taliban took over the South A
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Afghan women raise concern over Taliban's new rule to limit entry in "ladi
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 12 (ANI): Ever since the Taliban took over control of Afghanistan, large-scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls has been ongoing in the country, which has apparently witnessed a downfall trend. Local women have expres
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Taliban cleric Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani killed in blast in Kabul
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 11 (ANI): Taliban cleric Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani was killed in a blast which occured in Afghanistan's Kabul on Thursday, local media reported.
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