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Multiple blasts heard in Afghanistan's capital Kabul; no official comment yet: Report
World | Jan 05, 2023, 06:19 AM ISTKabul 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.
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Taliban mocks Pakistan, reminds it of its surrender to Indian forces in 1971 war
World | Jan 03, 2023, 12:28 PM ISTTaliban'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.
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Voices grow against Taliban ban on women’s education; protest in USA
World | Jan 03, 2023, 08:19 AM ISTDays 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.
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UN rights chief decries restrictions imposed on Afghan women, urges Taliban rulers to drop them
India | Dec 27, 2022, 07:50 PM ISTRestrictions 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.
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Pakistan: 5 soldiers killed, 14 civilians injured in separate explosions in Balochistan
World | Dec 25, 2022, 10:41 PM ISTPakistan: No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. Baluch separatist groups have long waged a low-level insurgency in the region.
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Afghanistan: NGOs suspend work after Taliban bans working women
World | Dec 25, 2022, 05:40 PM ISTAfghanistan: Several NGOs said that they cannot effectively reach children, women and men in desperate need in Afghanistan without the women in their workforces.
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Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from working for domestic, foreign NGOs
World | Dec 24, 2022, 11:32 PM ISTThe 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.
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‘…violated the principles of Islam’: What Taliban minister said to defend women higher education ban
World | Dec 23, 2022, 07:21 AM ISTSeveral countries, including India, expressed concerns and denounced the Taliban's latest decision to ban university education for women in Afghanistan.
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India expresses concern over Taliban's decision to ban university education for women in Afghanistan
India | Dec 22, 2022, 10:18 PM ISTTaliban'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.
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Pakistani Security forces kill 25 Talibani militants and secure CTD compound after 3 days
World | Dec 21, 2022, 01:07 PM ISTAs 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.
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Taliban bans university education for girls in Afghanistan
World | Dec 25, 2022, 01:58 PM ISTThe 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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Year Ender 2022: World events which made headlines
News | Dec 21, 2022, 10:49 AM ISTYear Ender 2022 | The year 2022 witnessed several big events such as: Russia-Ukraine war, Taliban taking over Afghanistan, Sri Lanka economic crisis among others. Take a look.
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Pakistan: Detained Taliban militants hold hostage officials from CTD to flee Kabul I WATCH
World | Dec 19, 2022, 10:32 AM ISTPakistan CTD officials hostage: Amid the border tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan, detained militants inside the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) held interrogators hostage on Sunday.
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Afghanistan: Loud blast, gunshots heard at a Kabul hotel popular with Chinese visitors
World | Dec 12, 2022, 07:29 PM ISTKabul Hotel Blast: According to news agency AFP, the building was frequently visited by Chinese businessmen in Kabul. Former ToloNews journalist, Addulhaq Omeri posted videos of the attack on his Twitter handle.
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India willing to engage with Taliban, claims ex-Afghan Intelligence Chief
World | Dec 11, 2022, 12:47 PM ISTAmid the grim situation in war-torn Afghanistan, its former Intelligence Chief believes India is willing to engage with the Taliban to restore normalcy in the debt-ridden country.
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Afghanistan: Taliban carry out first public execution since hastily takeover in August 2021
World | Dec 08, 2022, 12:32 PM ISTPublic execution in Afghanistan: The executed man, identified as Tajmir from Herat province, was convicted of killing another man five years ago and stealing his motorcycle and mobile phone.
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PAK vs ENG, 1st Test: Security threats loom over series opener? Taliban ends ceasefire with govt.
Cricket | Nov 29, 2022, 11:47 PM ISTPAK vs ENG, 1st Test: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has called of its indefinite ceasefire with the Pakistan government. This has opened the floodgates of security issues in Pakistan as the terror group has called for nation wide attacks
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Pakistani Taliban ends ceasefire with govt; orders its militants to carry out attacks
World | Nov 28, 2022, 10:31 PM ISTThe banned group said that the decision to end the truce was taken after “a series of non-stop attacks were launched by the military organisations” in Bannu and Lakki Marwat areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
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Taliban ban women from many university subjects
World | Oct 15, 2022, 02:05 PM ISTOfficials expect 100,000 students (including 30,000 women) to take university entrance exams in Afghanistan this year.
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Afghanistan: At least 18 killed, 21 wounded in mosque blast in Herat
World | Sep 02, 2022, 04:29 PM ISTAfghanistan: The Herat mosque draws followers of Sunni Islam, the dominant stream in Afghanistan that is also followed by the Taliban.