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Women are banned from private and public universities in Afghanistan with immediate effect and until further notice, a Taliban government spokesman said Tuesday. The move marks the latest edict cracking down on their rights and…

The Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women and girls, including their exclusion from parks and gyms as well as schools and universities, may amount to a crime against humanity, a group of UN experts said on Friday. The assessment by the…

The Taliban this week, in another violation of their promises made to the international community, disallowed women students enrolled in Kazakhstan and Qatar’s universities from leaving the country. The Taliban-led government allowed male…

<!-- -->"Women and girls are facing alarming rollback on their rights," said UN officaial.Kabul:  UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths called out the Taliban for…

<!-- -->Taliban leader and Afghanistan's acting interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani. (AFP File Photo)The Taliban have promised to “good news” on the return of girls to schools in the country. But those who protested the regime's…

By AFP SYDNEY: Australia on Friday postponed its first-ever cricket Test against Afghanistan after the country's ruling Taliban regime effectively banned women from playing the sport. Australia's cricketing…

Khalida looked out the window of her Kabul apartment tower at a city that no longer seemed to have a place for her since the Taliban returned with their gun-mounted pickups.The 30-year-old once represented the promise of Afghanistan, an…

<!-- -->"I am worried that 20 years of hard work by these women will go to waste," said Shafiqeh Attai. AFPHerat: An Afghan business leader who employs hundreds of women on her saffron fields has vowed to speak up for the rights of…

The Taliban said on Tuesday Afghan girls will be allowed to return to school “as soon as possible", after their movement faced shock and fury over their effective exclusion of women and girls from public life.The hardliners’ spokesman…

শুভব্রত মুখার্জি : মহিলা ক্রিকেটারদের তালিবানরা খেলতে না দিলে আফগানিস্তান পুরুষদের সিনিয়র জাতীয় দলের সঙ্গে যে একটিমাত্র টেস্ট অস্ট্রেলিয়া ক্রিকেট বোর্ড খেলবে না বলে জানিয়ে দিয়েছেন। আর এই ঘোষণার পরেই আফগানিস্তানের পুরুষ জাতীয় সিনিয়র…