Hasiba Noori is ALIVE: All you need to know about the Afghan singer who was reported to be killed
July 17, 2023 21:45 ISTHasiba Noori shot to fame with her song Phastun.
Hasiba Noori shot to fame with her song Phastun.
International Education Day 2023: The 3-decade-old conflict in Afghanistan has made education a dream for girls in the war-torn country. We are celebrating the fifth International Education Day today, but millions of girls in the Heart of Asia are looking for a light in their life.
The formats which have landed at the Delhi airport with several people of the Sikh community will now be taken to a Gurudwara.
Days after banning University education for women, the Taliban government on Saturday ordered all foreign and domestic non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to suspend employing women, allegedly because some female employees didn't wear the Islamic headscarf correctly.
As per Pakistani media, one of the detained militants snatched an AK-47 gun from an interrogator and subsequently freed his other inmates. Later, they took hostage several CTD officials and demanded a free escape to Afghanistan.
Bashir Noorzai, a Taliban drug lord, told reporters in Kabul on Monday that he spent 17 years and six months in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and that he was released in exchange with American Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran, who was held in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan news: The UN said it is increasingly concerned that the policy, together with other restrictions on basic freedoms, will contribute to a deepening of the country's economic crisis in the form of greater insecurity, poverty and isolation.
Taliban officials also did not elaborate on what kind of bombing targeted the cleric or say if anyone else had been killed or wounded in the assault.
At least 11 people were injured, and five were reported dead as the quake shook Paktika's Gayan District Friday morning, suggested Bakhtar News Agency.
After the order was announced Thursday, only a handful of news outlets complied with the order. But on Sunday, most female anchors were seen with their faces covered after the Taliban's vice and virtue ministry began enforcing the order.
"We have failed them," said netizens for women in Afghanistan after the Taliban released new orders on Hijab. As per the statement, women must step out only is necessary and wear head-to-toe clothing in public.
Dozens of women who arrived at Kabul's international airport Friday to board domestic and international flights were told they couldn't do so without a male guardian, said officials.
Today marks six months since the Afghan capital of Kabul was ceded to the Taliban with the sudden and secret departure of the country's US-backed president.
A statement from the governor's office said the blast took place when a cart selling food items struck an old, unexploded mortar shell in the district of Lalopar, in eastern Nagarhar province.
Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban-run government, said the country's Independent Election Commission and Electoral Complaint Commission have been dissolved.
The Taliban takeover led to a shut-off of international aid to the govt and the blocking of billions of dollars in Afghan assets held abroad, worsening an already crumbling economy.
Since coming to power in Afghanistan three months ago, the Taliban have been waging a counterinsurgency campaign, vowing to put down the threat from IS.
Two earlier meetings in this format have been held in Iran in September 2018 and December 2019. The third meeting in India could not be held earlier due to the pandemic.
Without speaking on political issues, Akhundzada prayed for the success of the Taliban leadership.
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