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Taliban crackdown on journalists continues, another Afghan scribe disappea
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], May 31 (ANI): Raising concerns about the increasing human rights issues in Afghanistan, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said the Taliban must investigate the disappearance of journalist Ali Akbar Khairkhah and ensure that local officials allow female journa
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Afghanistan: Narcotics processing lab destroyed, 4 arrested
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 30 (ANI): Afghanistan's security forces have destroyed a narcotics processing lab and arrested four people in the eastern Wardak province, the Taliban government said on Monday.
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Afghanistan-based TTP poses threat to Pakistan: UNSC report
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 29 (ANI): The United Nations Security Council report has warned that Afghanistan-based Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) posed a threat to Pakistan.
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More than half of Afghanistan's population dependent on humanitarian assis
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 28 (ANI): Afghanistan is facing its worst humanitarian crisis since the Taliban seized power in August last year as poverty and unemployment are at an all-time high and families in Kabul are forced to move to the streets.
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Taliban dismisses UNSC's call to reverse restrictions on Afghan women
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 28 (ANI): The call of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to lift the Taliban's strict measures on Afghan women has been dismissed by the Taliban forces who have termed it as "unfounded."
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Afghan women continue protest over ban on girls' schools
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 27 (ANI): Taliban forces suppress a protest by Afghan women on Thursday in regard to the ban on girls' schools nearing almost nine months.
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More than half of Afghanistan's population depends upon Humanitarian assis
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 27 (ANI): Amid the deteriorating economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday said that more than half of the population of Afghanistan is dependent upon humanitarian assistance.
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Taliban unlikely to curb Afghanistan's drug trade: Report
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 26 (ANI): The Taliban through tactical declarations have been pretending to halt production of narcotics in Afghanistan to evade close international scrutiny on opium cultivation in the country.
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Taliban sign deal with UAE to run Afghan airports
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 26 (ANI): The Taliban have signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates on operating airports in Afghanistan, the group's transportation and civil aviation minister said on Tuesday, after months of talks with the UAE, Turkey and Qatar.
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UNSC urges Taliban to reverse policies restricting Afghan women's freedom,
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 25 (ANI): United Nations Security Council on Tuesday urged the Taliban to reverse the policies restricting the human rights and fundamental rights of women and girls in Afghanistan.
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Pakistan: Afghan refugees hold rally demanding shelter in developed countr
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 24 (ANI): Several Afghan refugees on Monday protested at a rally in Islamabad demanding shelter in developed countries, saying that Pakistan itself is reeling under economic and political crisis and they don't want to go back to their country being governed by the T
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Amnesty International calls global response to Afghanistan's restrictions
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 24 (ANI): Amnesty International called the international community's response to Afghanistan's restrictions on women 'disappointing', a local media reported.
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