India gave 200 crores to Taliban from budget 2023?
News | February 03, 2023 23:32 ISThe Taliban government in Afghanistan has appreciated the decision of the Government of India in which it has been decided to give Rs 200 crore to the country.
he Taliban government in Afghanistan has appreciated the decision of the Government of India in which it has been decided to give Rs 200 crore to the country.
Despite initial promises, the Taliban have imposed increasing restrictions on girls and women since they took power in August 2021 during the final weeks of the U.S. and NATO forces' pullout after 20 years.
Afghanistan: Earlier, the extremist group had barred women from both private and public universities.
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BBC report reveals that Taliban members have acquired Twitter's coveted Blue Tick verification, sparking outrage among users. Although Twitter has since removed the verification badges and announced a new verification program for organisations, the internet is divided.
Two Taliban members- Hedayatullah Hedayat, the department for "access to information" of the Taliban (1,87,000 followers) and Abdul Haq Hammad, who is the head of the media watchdog at the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture (1,70,000 followers) purchased the Blue Tick badge for a short span.
Earlier on January 13th, 11 countries had urged the group to remove all restrictions against women and girls in Afghanistan and allow them to return to public life.
Afghanistan: The ban, announced last month, forced a widespread shutdown of many aid operations by organisations that said they cannot and would not work without their female staff.
Kabul blasts: The latest incident took place barely three days after at least 10 people were killed and eight others seriously injured in an explosion that occurred at the Kabul military airport, on January 1.
Taliban's statement comes after Pakistan's interior minister Rana Sanaullah hinted at a possible military operation against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) hideouts in Afghanistan.
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.
Restrictions on Afghan women: United Nation's human rights chief Volker Türk warned that the latest decree by the Taliban rulers will have terrible consequences for women and for all Afghan people.
Pakistan: No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. Baluch separatist groups have long waged a low-level insurgency in the region.
Afghanistan: Several NGOs said that they cannot effectively reach children, women and men in desperate need in Afghanistan without the women in their workforces.
The bans are the latest restrictive moves by Afghanistan's new rulers against women's rights and freedoms, coming just days after the Taliban banned female students from attending universities across the country.
Several countries, including India, expressed concerns and denounced the Taliban's latest decision to ban university education for women in Afghanistan.
Taliban's brutal step to curtail the freedom of Afghan girls and women has been chastised by several countries including the US, Canada, France, Australia, Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
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.
The authorities issued an order to all government and private universities in Afghanistan to suspend "education of females" until further notice, reports said.
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