Afghanistan needs its women working, not confined to homes
DR. BASHAYER AL-MAJED February 19, 2023 Three years ago — a year prior to taking control of Afghanistan — the deputy leader of the Taliban made a statement via an […]
DR. BASHAYER AL-MAJED February 19, 2023 Three years ago — a year prior to taking control of Afghanistan — the deputy leader of the Taliban made a statement via an […]
Feb 14,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Jeffrey D. Sachs The greatest enemy of economic development is war. If the world slips further into global conflict, our economic hopes and our […]
by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan April 7, 2022 We need a uniform standard of justice to hold accountable perpetrators of war crimes, wherever they may occur. In early April, shocking video surfaced […]
Foreign affairs Since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in summer 2021, the number of applications for humanitarian visas in Switzerland has increased massively. Only a small fraction are approved, […]
DALIA AL-AQIDI January 29, 2023 Abdul Wasi Safi is a 27-year-old Afghan man who worked as an intelligence officer for Afghanistan’s National Security Forces until 2021, when he fled his home country following the withdrawal of US forces. Safi was a little boy when Afghanistan was liberated from the grip […]
1 / 2 UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed says Muslim countries need to help Afhanistan’s Taliban rulers to move from the “13th century to the 21st.” (AFP file) 2 / 2 In […]
BBC News Reporting by Aakriti Thapar, Mahfouz Zubaide and Andrew Clarance Play video ‘I wish God had never created women’ from BBC’I wish God had never created women’ Play video […]
MAHA AKEEL January 21, 2023 Bringing attention back to Afghanistan, the Taliban shocked the world last month with the absurd order to local and foreign aid organizations to stop employing […]
As the readers of The Muslim Times may recall I lived and worked in Afghanistan for 3 1/2 years in 1969 to 1972. see https://themuslimtimes.info/2017/08/19/glimpses-into-the-life-of-a-global-nomad-part-four/ Today I would just like […]
By Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent @bbclysedoucet In a country where women are barred from university and secondary schools, and banned from many workplaces, the world’s biggest aid operation is […]
Many provinces in Afghanistan have seen an exceptionally cold winter, with temperatures dropping to as low as -21 degrees Celsius. By Ruchi Kumar Published On 17 Jan 202317 Jan 2023 The […]
Two girls in Daikundi province, Afghanistan. Muzafar Ali wanted to capture the beauty of his country through photography before it was destroyed by the Taliban. Photograph: Muzafar Ali/The Guardian When […]
bbc.com A former Afghan MP and her bodyguard have been shot dead at her home in the capital Kabul, Afghan police have said. Mursal Nabizada, 32, was one of the […]
Taliban version of Islam Muhammad Amir Rana Published January 15, 2023 The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has started enforcing Sharia laws based on their own interpretation of the precepts of Islam. Pakistan […]
Opinion International Geneva Despite the Taliban’s recent decision to ban all women from working in NGOs, humanitarian aid must continue to flow to Afghanistan. This means aid agencies have to negotiate […]
Aug 27,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM — Why did the West’s Afghanistan policy fail so spectacularly? Was it doomed from the very beginning, and have any lessons been learned? More to the point, did the end of one 20-year war pave the way for another? One year […]
LUKE COFFEY January 13, 2023 The winter months are a time of hardship and hunger for many Afghans, of whom an estimated 97 percent are threatened with poverty. This winter, […]
January 4, 2022 at 4:55 pm | Published in: Afghanistan, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, News, UK Internally displaced Afghans are seen in a camp in Balkh, Afghanistan on 13 November 2021 [Sayed Khodaiberdi […]
/ / January 10, 2023 at 7:42 pm | Published in: Afghanistan, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, News, UK Refugees evacuated from Afghanistan in Leeds, UK on November 30, 2021 [Danny Lawson/WPA Pool/Getty Images]January 10, […]
By Andre Rhoden-Paul and defence correspondent Jonathan Beale BBC News A retired commanding officer has accused Prince Harry of “turning against” his military family after “having trashed his birth family”. […]