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Taliban ban long-distance road trips for solo women: Here's how group has clamped down on Afghani women's freedom
Fp Staff •The guidance issued by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which also called on vehicle owners to refuse rides to women not wearing headscarves, has drawn condemnation from rights activists.
Two Taliban fighters among five killed in fresh attacks in Jalalabad
•Although no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, Jalalabad city is the base of Taliban rival Islamic State of Khorasan’s operations
Afghanistan-origin Indian abducted at gunpoint in Kabul, MEA’s ‘immediate intervention’ sought
Fp Staff •Bansri Lal Arendeh was kidnapped along with his staff, who managed to escape, but only after being mercilessly thrashed
From women can't be ministers to no co-education, a look at the new Taliban's perspective on women's rights
Fp Staff •Recent controversial comments by Taliban leaders, like that of Hashimi, have exposed the Taliban’s true nature as it ignores women, who make up half of the population of the war-torn country
'Don't want to turn the clock back': Taliban allows women to study, but conditions apply
•The Taliban have suggested they have changed, including in their attitudes toward women. However, women have been banned from sports and the Taliban have used violence in recent days against women protesters demanding equal rights.
Afghanistan teeters on brink of universal poverty; 97% population could be affected by mid-2022: UN
•Foreign reserves now cover just one week of imports, which the country is heavily reliant on for oil, food and machinery
Narendra Modi to chair BRICS summit today: Why regime change in Afghanistan makes meet significant
Fp Staff •The virtual meet comes at a time when China and Russia have already established contact with the Taliban dispensation
Afghanistan crisis: NSA Ajit Doval meets Russian counterpart Nikolay Patrushev in Delhi
•Both sides deliberated on a coordinated approach in dealing with possible spilling out of terrorist activities from the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan into India, Russia and the Central Asian region
No country for women: Taliban's all-male cabinet stirs fear of a 'dark future'
Fp Staff •Women in the country allege they have been relegated to their houses and that the progress they had made has already been overturned
US thanks several nations including India for their 'generous offers' to help during Afghanistan evacuation
•The US State Department said that America is grateful to the global network of countries that have provided "critical assistance for our evacuation efforts"