カテゴリー: Taliban
From Greece the women are advocating for fellow refugees – and those left behind under Taliban ruleIt is a Saturday morning in November, and Afghan MP Nazifa Yousufi Bek gathers up her notes and prepares to head for the office. But instead of jumping i…
More than 250 newspapers, radio and TV stations have closed in first 100 days of militants’ ruleThe romantic serials have gone after the Taliban warned against racy content, the popular women’s call-in shows were axed after the militants said they didn…
Sharbat Gula left Afghanistan after Taliban takeover that followed US departure from countryNational Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the west’s evacuation of Afghans after the Taliban takeover of the…
The west has a moral duty to help those facing starvation. We demand that the British government lead the wayStephen Kinnock MP is shadow minister for Asia and the PacificFor 20 years the Afghan economy has been almost entirely dependent on financial s…
Journalists asked to wear a hijab and broadcasters told to stop showing dramas featuring female actorsAfghan journalists and rights activists have condemned “religious guidelines” issued by the Taliban that restrict the role of women in television, as …
The hardline Islamist Taliban movement, which stormed to power earlier this year after ousting the Western-backed government, has allowed all boys and younger girls back to class, but has not let girls attend secondary school Continue reading…
As its economy implodes and the food crisis grows, its people feel betrayed. No wonderThe global attention has dissipated, but the crisis is intensifying. The bleak year that Afghans have endured is turning to a still bleaker winter. The UN World Food …
On Helmand’s bleak wards, dying children pay the price as western aid to Afghanistan is switched off
The staff are unpaid, the drugs are running out. Gereshk hospital can only watch as tiny infants succumb to treatable diseasesShirin has paid heavily for both Afghanistan’s conflict, and its abrupt end in Taliban victory. Three years ago her husband lo…
Family say the body of Dr Nader Alemi, who was taken by armed men in September, showed signs of tortureOne of Afghanistan’s most prominent psychiatrists, who was abducted by armed men in September, has been found dead, his family has confirmed. Dr Nade…
Months after Mohadese Mirzaee became Afghanistan’s first female commercial airline pilot, the Taliban took Kabul. Now a refugee in Bulgaria, she is determined to fly againSitting alone in her small flat in Bulgaria, Mohadese Mirzaee contemplates the fu…
After a vicious beating, Fatima Ahmadi fled Afghanistan with her children for Pakistan. But her pleas for asylum in the west are met by silenceFatima Ahmadi only stopped screaming when the Taliban held a knife to her child’s throat, and told her: “Shut…
Despite talk of a Taliban ban, in Helmand’s poppy fields farmers and traders say they are not the only ones who depend on the drug to surviveThe Taliban’s announcement that it plans to ban the production of opium in Afghanistan does not faze seasoned d…
Four-week truce could be extended, opening the possibility of a fuller peace accord to help end years of bloodshedPakistani authorities and local Taliban militants have agreed a one-month ceasefire which may be extended if both sides agree, opening the…
Frozan Safi, 29, is believed to be the first women’s rights defender to be killed since Taliban return to powerA 29-year-old activist and economics lecturer, Frozan Safi, has been shot and killed in northern Afghanistan, in what appears to be the first…
Women’s rights activists fear for their lives as Afghanistan’s new rulers infiltrate, detain, beat and torture groups of protestersA month ago, Reshmin was busy organising protests against Taliban rule in online groups of hundreds of fellow women’s rig…