Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Afghan women and girls with disabilities are being confronted with barriers, discrimination, and sexual harassment when trying to obtain government assistance, health care, and education.
Based on the current status of women in Taliban-controlled regions, it might mean that women will have token access to employment in essential jobs such health workers or teachers. They will, however, be denied leadership roles and will have to work in strict gender segregation.
Opposition politicians in Pakistan are against the government’s effort to review a decade-old constitutional amendment that enhanced the country’s federal form of government, restored parliamentary democracy, and made it much more difficult to launch a military coup.
On the streets in Kabul, the coup is still blamed for all of Afghanistan’s woes.
Do practicing Muslims put themselves at greater risk to contract the coronavirus if they fast during Ramadan? Two health experts give their views.
The Taliban-drafted constitution from the time the radical group ruled Afghanistan offers a rare glimpse into the militant organization’s political vision.
The holy Muslim month of Ramadan will be starkly different amid a coronavirus pandemic that will force many Muslims to give up cherished religious rituals, including taking part in communal fast-breaking ceremonies.
Illegal mining of precious stones in an eastern Afghan province is depriving its impoverished residents of resources and their country of much-needed revenue.
The families of Taliban combatants and Afghan soldiers killed in Afghanistan’s seemingly unending war are hoping their country will finally see peace.
Ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Afghan government has released another 55 Taliban prisoners, the National Security Council has said.
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