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Matiul Haq Khalis, head of the National Environmental Protection Agency from Afghanistan, said Afghanistan must participate in future climate talks. File | Photo Credit: AP An Afghan environment official on Sunday (December 1, 2024) said the country must be allowed to participate in future global climate talks, after returning from COP29 in Baku where Taliban […]
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Image used for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: AFP More than 300 Afghan journalists have suffered rights breaches since the Taliban surged back to power in 2021, a United Nations report said Tuesday, documenting dozens of cases of torture and arbitrary arrest. Afghanistan’s media sector has dramatically shrunk under three years of Taliban government, while […]
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Mawlawi Matiul Haq Khalis (C), director general of NEPA, speaking with delegates before departing to Azerbaijan for UN climate change summit, in Kabul. An Afghan delegation will attend the upcoming UN climate change summit in Azerbaijan. | Photo Credit: AFP The Taliban will attend a U.N. climate conference for the first time since their takeover […]
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Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan. File | Photo Credit: AP Women in Afghanistan are not forbidden from speaking to each other, the Taliban government’s Morality Ministry said on Saturday (November 9, 2024), denying recent media reports of a ban. Afghan media based outside the […]
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Image used for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: Reuters Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Koran in front of other women, according to a Taliban government minister. It’s the latest restriction on women following morality laws that ban them from raising their voice and baring their faces outside the home. They […]
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TV anchor Nesar Nabil is seen on studio monitors wearing a face mask to protest the Taliban’s new order that female presenters cover their faces, as he reads the news on TOLOnews, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 22, 2022. | Photo Credit: AP An Afghan province has banned all media from showing images of living […]
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Afghan journalists attend a press conference by Afghanistan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi, in Kabul on September 19, 2024. Afghanistan’s Taliban morality ministry pledged on October 14, to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, with journalists told the rule will be gradually enforced. | Photo Credit: […]
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Representative image | Photo Credit: AFP Uzbekistan has accepted an ambassador from Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities, Kabul’s foreign ministry said on Thursday (October 10, 2024), a rare diplomatic triumph for the internationally isolated government. The ambassador to Tashkent is only the third to be accredited abroad since the Taliban seized power in 2021, joining a pair […]
Continue ReadingPeople had just seconds to flee their homes when the terrifying sound of earth cracking open reverberated across western Afghanistan’s Herat province. Nobody knows for sure how many people died in a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on October 7, 2023, or in the strong aftershocks that followed. The Taliban government estimated that at least 4,000 perished. […]
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