A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

ISLAMABAD -- In August 2021, Pakistan celebrated the takeover of Kabul by the Afghan Taliban. "Afghanistan has broken the shackles of slavery," said a jubilant Imran Khan, then prime minister of ...

As part of its drive to expel Afghan citizens from the nation’s capital, Pakistan has deported dozens bearing UNHCR-issued documents, the agency told VOA Thursday. Authorities in Islamabad ...

He also called for Afghanistan's funding to be withheld until women's cricket is reinstated and support given to Afghan women's players. Amiri said she and her team-mates are "proud" of the ...

Good Indian girls also don’t get coached to master free-kicks, they are taught to get that perfect brown on their aloo-gobi ... wells can lead to obscene acts,” the Taliban government spokesperson is ...

Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai warned that Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have implemented 100 laws that violate women's rights. She also condemned Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip. https ...

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It is, however, ironic given that Pakistan has itself, for long, provided logistical, military and moral support to the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network, the two formerly insurgent-cum-terrorist ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of veterans and current and former U.S. officials want President-elect Donald Trump to preserve U.S. special visa and resettlement programs for Afghans at ...

Afghanistan's embassy in Pakistan said around 800 Afghans living in the capital have been detained by authorities, including some who are registered with the UN's refugee agency. According to ...

MANILA, Philippines — About 300 Afghan nationals — at least half of them minors — arrived in the Philippines on Monday aboard a chartered flight to complete the processing of their special ...

MANILA, Philippines — Three hundred Afghan nationals arrived yesterday in the Philippines to await the processing within 59 days of their Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) to the United States.