Afghanistan

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U.S. woman among 18 NGO staff detained in Afghanistan

Taliban have waged a systematic assault on freedom in Afghanistan: U.N. human rights chief

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Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of 'unprovoked' border firing, says such incidents embolden terrorists

File photo of a general view of the border post in Torkham, Pakistan

Pakistan shuts key border crossing with Afghanistan after guards exchange fire

France evacuates five Afghan women ‘threatened by Taliban’

Neighbours and rivals: On the Asia Cup

A worker paints a wall on which pro-Khalistan slogans were written at Shivaji Park metro station in New Delhi on August 27, 2023.

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Taliban will use security forces to stop women from visiting one of Afghanistan’s most popular national parks, according to information shared by a spokesman for the Vice and Virtue Ministry. File

Taliban say security forces will stop women from visiting Afghan national park

There is rising aggression against Pakistan’s minorities

No bulwark for Pakistan’s minorities

File picture of Taliban fighters patrolling on the road during a celebration marking the second anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan, in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan

More than 200 former Afghan officials and security forces killed since Taliban takeover, U.N. says

‘There is a big dissonance between GDP growth and its translation into actual jobs and incomes for people’

The issue is not about India’s GDP, but its JDP

Praveen Chakravarty

Molvi Mohammad Sadiq Akif, the spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Vice and Virtue, speaks during an interview in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 17, 2023.

Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public

Rescue operations underway after a massive landslide triggered by a cloudburst hit a temple at Summer Hill area, in Shimla on August 16.

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Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education.

United Nations envoy says ICC should prosecute Taliban for crimes against humanity denying girls education

Taliban soldiers celebrate the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul on a street near the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 15, 2023.

Taliban believe Afghanistan rule is ‘open-ended’, don’t plan to lift ban on female education

Rescue workers search for people feared missing in landslides following torrential rains, in Shimla.

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The Hindu Bureau

Taliban supporters celebrate on the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul at a street near the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2023.

Afghanistan's Taliban govt. marks two years since return to power

Taliban security personnel ride on a vehicle as they celebrate the second anniversary of their takeover in Herat on August 15, 2023.

Caught between the Taliban’s restrictions and India’s no-visa ‘policy’, Indian citizen in Herat longs for freedom to return

Suhasini Haidar

A UN report expressed concerns about the proliferation of weapons in Afghanistan, West Asia and Africa. File

NATO-calibre weapons being transferred to ISIL-K by Taliban, Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups like TTP: U.N. report

An Afghan man removes sand from a road in Balkh province, Afghanistan, August 4, 2023.

Prolonged drought deepens Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis

Afghan refugees hold an indoor rally to demand their U.S. visa to be processed in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, July 21, 2023.

Two years after the fall of Kabul, Afghans’ wait for US visas continues

A Pakistani police officer stand guard at the site of Sunday’s suicide bomber attack in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on July 31, 2023. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former stronghold of militants in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on July 30, 2023

Afghan Taliban say dozens of Pakistanis involved in recent Islamic State attacks

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