Trade With Afghanistan Will Remain Suspended Until Attacks Stop, Says Pakistan
Samar Haroon Bilour, an adviser to the governor of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said trade with Afghanistan would not resume…
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Women Living Under Taliban Rule: The Systematic Erasure of Rights and Freedom
Since the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the lives of Afghan women and girls have undergone a dramatic and devastating transformation. What was once a fragile but growing space for women’s participation in public life has been replaced by one of the most restrictive systems of gender-based repression in the modern…
Former Afghan Police Chief Appears In Confession Video After Reported Taliban Arrest
Sada-e Hindukush, a media outlet linked to Taliban intelligence, has released a video of what it describes as a forced…
UN Expert Warns Against Legitimising Taliban Without Human Rights Reforms
UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett has warned that international engagement with the Taliban must not lead to political legitimacy without measurable improvements in human rights, particularly the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. Presenting…
Two Taliban Morality Police Members Killed In Helmand, Says United Front
The Afghanistan United Front has reported another attack on the Taliban in Helmand, saying its forces killed two members of the Taliban’s vice and virtue department in Nawa district. The group said the two men…
Killing Of 11 People By Taliban Forces Must Be Investigated, Says UN Rapporteur
Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has called for an independent investigation into the killing of 11 people by Taliban security forces in Kabul. The Taliban said on 1 August…
United Front Claims Attacks On Taliban Positions In Helmand & Kandahar
The United Front of Afghanistan said on Friday, 14 August, that its forces had carried out three operations against Taliban forces in Helmand and Kandahar over the previous 24 hours. According to the group’s statement,…
UN Human Rights Council Addresses Afghanistan at 61st Session
The 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council addressed the situation in Afghanistan. In addition to human rights issues, the session also referred to Pakistan’s airstrikes on Afghanistan. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concern over the clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan, highlighting the increase in…
Afghan Migrants in Pakistan Forced to Demolish Homes Amid Deportation
A number of Afghan migrants residing in Pakistan say that Pakistani authorities have asked them to demolish their homes and return to Afghanistan. The Afghan migrants told, in recent weeks some families have been forced to destroy their shelters, an action that has left them…
From Kabul to Paris: The Young Woman Who Chased Her Dream of Fashion Across War, Borders and the Edge of Death
When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, thousands of Afghan women saw the futures they had spent years building disappear almost overnight. Many were forced into their homes, others fled into…
A Voice Gone Too Soon, Who was Shirin Hazara?
Shirin Hazara grew up knowing what it meant to live with struggle. She was born in Jaghuri, Ghazni, in Afghanistan, and spent her childhood surrounded by the kind of poverty many Afghan children know too…
Acting Became a Symbol of Lost Dreams: The Story of Samere Rezaie
Long before cameras, scripts, and film festivals, Samere Rezaie was just a six-year-old girl sitting in front of a television—watching, imagining, and quietly stepping into another world. “I was acting while watching films,” she recalls.…
UK Envoy Highlights Men’s Role in Supporting Girls’ Education
Nearly five years after girls above sixth grade were barred from attending schools and universities, Richard Lindsay, the UK’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, says men’s support for girls’ and women’s right to education is vital…
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