Apr 02, 2022, at 02:31 pm
New York: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has regretted that girls’ education above 6th grade still remains suspended in Taliban ruled Afghanistan.
Afghanistan: Taliban stops broadcast of VOA, BBC
Mar 30, 2022, at 02:28 am
Kabul: The Taliban government of Afghanistan has directed private television stations in Afghanistan not to telecast Voice of America (VOA) and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) news programmes in the country, media reports said on Tuesday.
Afghanistan: Taliban prevents beardless government employees entry to Ministry of Finance office
Mar 30, 2022, at 02:16 am
Kabul: The Taliban members recently prevented beardless government employees from entering the Ministry of Finance building, media reports said.
Afghanistan Crisis: Taliban arrests three journalists in Kandahar
Mar 29, 2022, at 02:59 pm
Kabul: Afghanistan Journalists Union has said the Taliban government arrested three journalists of the local Milat Ghag radio station in the southeastern Kandahar province of the violence-hit country.
Mar 29, 2022, at 02:18 pm
Kabul: Supreme leader of the Taliban Mullah Hebtullah Akhundzada has directed Afghanistan's military officials not to recruit teenage members to their ranking.
Afghanistan: Journalist detained by Taliban
Mar 29, 2022, at 04:34 am
Kabul: Family of a local journalist has claimed that Taliban forces have detained him on Saturday due to unknown reasons.
Afghanistan: Women can only enter parks for three days in a week, directs Taliban
Mar 28, 2022, at 01:10 am
Kabul: The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan issued yet another bizarre diktat by which women can only go to parks three days a week while men are given four days in the country.
Taliban will keep finding excuses to stop girls from learning in Afghanistan: Malala Yousafzai
Mar 27, 2022, at 09:31 pm
Kabul: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has criticised the Taliban government of Afghanistan and said the group will try to find excuses to stop girls from learning.
Afghanistan: Women protest against Taliban's decision to ban girls from going to school
Mar 26, 2022, at 10:50 pm
Kabul: A small group of women demonstrated in Kabul city on Saturday against Taliban regime's decision to ban teenage girls from going to schools.
Taliban govt removes Nawruz holiday from Afghanistan's calendar
Mar 24, 2022, at 04:14 am
Kabul: Taliban government in Afghanistan has removed Navroz or Nowruz holiday from the Afghan calendar, media reports said.
Taliban threaten revenge killings in Afghanistan: HRW
Mar 24, 2022, at 04:12 am
Kabul: Taliban authorities in Afghanistan’s Helmand province have threatened to retaliate against activists and former government officials in response to recent killings of Taliban commanders, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today.
Afghanistan: Taliban detain 2 journalists, says source
Mar 18, 2022, at 09:47 pm
Kabul/UNI/Sputnik: The Taliban (under UN sanctions for terrorism) detained two staffers of leading Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews, a source told Sputnik on Friday.
Afghanistan: Taliban govt halts insurance industry
Mar 18, 2022, at 03:55 pm
Kabul: Th Taliban government of Afghanistan has suspended the operations of the insurance companies in Afghanistan, media reports said on Friday.
Afghanistan: Taliban border guards arrest two smugglers who wanted to smuggle weapons to Pakistan
Mar 15, 2022, at 02:34 pm
Kabul: Taliban officials in Afghanistan's southeastern Kandahar province said that border guards have arrested two smugglers who wanted to smuggle weapons to Pakistan.
Afghanistan: Kabul residents complain about rising food prices
Mar 14, 2022, at 03:01 pm
Kabul: Residents of Afghanistan's capital city Kabul are complaining about high price of food materials despite the dollar’s value dropping against Afghan currency.
Afghanistan: Demonstrators protest in Kabul, demand for women's access to education, work
Mar 13, 2022, at 11:24 pm
Kabul: A large number of women demonstrated in Afghanistan capital city Kabul on Saturday where they demanded for women’s access to education and work.
Murder of polio vaccinators in Afghanistan: Four people arrested
Mar 13, 2022, at 04:22 pm
Taliban security officials have arrested four people accused of killing four polio vaccinators and two Taliban affiliates in Kunduz province of Afghanistan.
Over one million Afghan women, children addicted to narcotics: Taliban
Mar 11, 2022, at 10:19 pm
A key Afghanistan Taliban leader has said there are over one million Afghan women, children addicted to narcotics in the country.
Taliban threatening provincial media in Afghanistan: HRW
Mar 08, 2022, at 01:33 am
Kabul: Taliban authorities have carried out far-reaching censorship and violence against Afghan media in district and provincial centres, drastically limiting critical reporting in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today.
Afghanistan: Blast near Paktika mosque leaves three dead
Mar 07, 2022, at 06:38 pm
Kabul: At least three people died and 20 others were wounded as a bomb rocked Afghanistan's Paktia province on Friday, media reports said on Monday.
Afghanistan journalist arrested for 'unclear reasons'
Mar 07, 2022, at 06:33 pm
Kabul: An Afghan journalist has been arrested by Taliban authorities in Afghanistan's capital Kabul for 'unclear reasons', media reports said.
Afghanistan university professor, who is known for criticising Taliban, goes missing
Mar 07, 2022, at 05:47 pm
Kabul: A professor of an Afghanistan university, who is known for criticising the Taliban government, has gone missing.
Afghanistan: Taliban govt asks people to handover weapons, govt property
Mar 06, 2022, at 04:39 am
Kabul: The Taliban government of Afghanistan has asked people to voluntarily hand over government-related weapons and other property and get them confiscated as they continue operating house-to-house sweeps in Kabul city.
Afghanistan: One killed as Taliban affiliates open fire at checkpost
Mar 06, 2022, at 04:30 am
Kabul: Taliban affiliates in the Shigal district of eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan opened fire at civilians on Thursday, leaving a young man dead and another person injured, media reports said.
To spare Afghanistan, world must engage with Taliban, Lyons tells Security Council
Mar 04, 2022, at 03:22 am
New York: Six months after the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, it is time for concerned countries to deepen their engagement with the country’s new authorities and take action to prevent an irreversible economic collapse, the top UN official in Kabul told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Afghanistan: Taliban ban evacuation of Afghans amid massive security sweep
Mar 02, 2022, at 05:03 am
Kabul: A Taliban spokesperson has said their administration will not allow any more evacuations of Afghans until the situation improves abroad for those who have already left.
UN condemns brutal killing of eight polio workers in Afghanistan
Feb 26, 2022, at 04:28 am
New York: The United Nations has condemned the killing of eight polio vaccination workers in four locations in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, the first such attacks since nationwide immunization campaigns resumed last November.
Armed clashes between border guards of Pakistan, Afghanistan leave 2 dead
Feb 26, 2022, at 02:02 am
Kabul: At least two people died and 20 others were hurt as armed clashes erupted between Pakistan’s border guards and the Taliban on Thursday in Chaman, Spin Boldak crossing point, media reports said.
Taliban calls for restraint, dialogue to resolve Ukraine situation
Feb 25, 2022, at 11:21 pm
Kabul: The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has called for restraint in Ukraine and urged for dialogue and peaceful means to resolve the crisis.
Norway refuses to recognize Taliban Govt
Feb 20, 2022, at 05:28 am
Oslo/Sputnik: Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt said Saturday that Oslo is not considering recognizing the Taliban government (under UN sanctions for terrorism) in Afghanistan.