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Women TV presenters defy Taliban order to cover faces on air

Kabul (AFP) - Women presenters on Afghanistan's leading TV channels went on air Saturday without covering their faces, defying a Taliban order that they conceal their appearance to comply with the group's austere brand of Islam.

AFP

Pakistan Taliban extend truce for more talks with government

The Pakistani Taliban say they are extending a cease-fire with the government in Islamabad until May 30, after the two sides held an initial round of talks in neighboring Afghanistan

The Independent UK

Afghanistan's Taliban mediate ceasefire between Pakistan, local militants

The Taliban in Afghanistan have mediated a temporary ceasefire between Pakistan and a local Pakistani Taliban militant group following talks between the two sides in Kabul, an official said on Wednesday.

Reuters

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US withdrawal prompted collapse of Afghan army: Report

The US oversight authority on Afghanistan says the decision to withdraw from Kabul led to the demise of the Afghan army.

Al Jazeera

Afghan money exchangers reopen after strike: brokers

Kabul (AFP) - Thousands of money exchangers in Afghanistan ended their strike on Monday, the brokers commission said, a day after they shut their shops to protest a steep hike in licence fees imposed by Taliban authorities.

AFP

‘We are worse off’: Afghanistan further impoverished as women vanish from workforce

From civil servants, teachers and doctors to journalists and business owners, loss of female workers under the Taliban has already cost the economy $1bn

The Guardian - UK

Afghan money exchangers on strike after licence fee hike

Kabul (AFP) - Thousands of money exchangers shut shop across Afghanistan on Sunday after Taliban authorities imposed a steep hike in licence fees, the brokers' commission said, in a bid to slow down money laundering and terrorism financing according to financial analysts.

AFP

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Daughter begs Government to save mum from Afghanistan and blasts Tory 'double standards'

Shabnam Nishat's mum has been in hiding in Afghanistan since thousands of troops were dispatched to Kabul to rescue UK nationals and Afghan allies from the Taliban advance

Daily Mirror

EU says Taliban 'not listening' to Afghans with girls' school ban

Kabul (AFP) - The Taliban shutdown of girls' education shows the hardline Islamists' are not listening to the Afghan people and poses a major hurdle to international recognition of the new regime, a top European Union official said Thursday.

AFP

Many Afghan women pushing back against Taliban orders to cover up

Many women in the Afghan capital are delaying a return to fully covering their faces in public in defiance of orders from Islamist Taliban rulers, others are staying at home and some have been wearing COVID-19 face masks anyway.

Reuters

Afghan women protest Taliban decree to cover faces

Kabul (AFP) - About a dozen women protested in the Afghan capital on Tuesday against the Taliban's new edict that females must fully cover their faces and bodies when in public.

AFP

LA Times foreign correspondent and photojournalist Marcus Yam wins Pulitzer Prize for work in Afghanistan

LOS ANGELES — Marcus Yam, a Los Angeles Times journalist with a warrior’s courage and a poet’s heart, won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography Monday for his poignant and searing pictures of last summer’s fall of Kabul, Afghanistan, to Taliban fighters.

Los Angeles Times

Afghan students run underground book club to keep dreams alive

A group of students runs the club in Kabul to learn, read and write their own stories amid expanding Taliban curbs.

Al Jazeera

‘The Taliban know they need us’: the Afghan hospitals run by women

Female medics continue to save lives, but rely on the Red Cross to get by because the Taliban cannot pay their salaries

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Afghan women deplore Taliban’s new order to cover faces in public

In their latest decree, the Taliban say it is ‘required for all respectable Afghan women to wear a hijab’.

AFP

Afghan women defiant but feel 'imprisoned' by order to cover faces

Kabul (AFP) - Women in Afghanistan expressed defiance on Sunday after the Taliban issued a directive ordering them to cover fully in public, including their faces, or stay indoors, saying the change would effectively leave them "imprisoned".

The Guardian - UK

Afghanistan face veil decree: ‘I’ve lost the right to choose my clothes’

Women say they fear going out in public despite Taliban vow to respect hard-won rights after 2021 takeover

AFP

Taliban order Afghan women to cover faces in public

Kabul (AFP) - The Taliban on Saturday imposed some of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan's women since seizing power, ordering them to cover fully -- including their faces -- in public, ideally with the traditional burqa.

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Taliban order Afghan women to cover fully in public

Kabul (AFP) - The Taliban on Saturday imposed some of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan's women since they seized power, ordering them to cover fully in public, ideally with the traditional burqa.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Taliban Announce Women Must Cover Faces in Public, Say Burqa Is Best

The Taliban on Saturday ruled Afghan women must cover their faces, according to a decree from the group's supreme leader, an escalation of growing restrictions on women in public that is drawing a backlash from the international community and many Afghans. A spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of…

AFP

Taliban order Afghan women to wear all-covering burqa

Kabul (AFP) - The Taliban on Saturday imposed one of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan's women since seizing power, ordering them to wear the all-covering burqa in public.

The Independent UK

Prosecutor who put Taliban behind bars fears for his life as UK ‘turns its back’ on Afghans

Former director of prosecution ‘terrified’ in immigration limbo in Pakistan

WEKU

Afghans who want teen girls back in school have new allies: Taliban-affiliated clerics

For 9 months, teen girls have been pretty much unable to go to school. Protests have been shut down. Now clerics — including some affiliated with the Taliban – are urging an end to the school ban.

ABC News

AOC-sponsored Afghan families still waiting for humanitarian visas from Australian government

After fleeing Afghanistan, the five families — which have been sponsored by the Australian Olympic Committee — are desperately waiting for the Australian government to issue the visas.

ABC News

'Symbolic' Afghanistan national women’s soccer team gives a voice for the voiceless on and off the pitch in Melbourne

More than 11,000 kilometres from Kabul, the Afghanistan National Women's team returns to the pitch.

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