Afghans find a credible opposition voice to the Taliban
LUKE COFFEY December 08, 2023 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows no sign of a peaceful conclusion. Meanwhile, the world remains focused on Israel’s war on Gaza. Sometimes it seems that […]
Time for world to stand up to Taliban’s gender apartheid
DR. AZEEM IBRAHIM November 27, 2023 It has been more than two years since the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan and the nation continues to plunge further […]
Pakistan’s Kalash people are afraid for their future after Taliban attack
bbc.com By Farhat Javed BBC Urdu, the Kalash valley Nestled in Pakistan’s Hindu Kush mountains, the remote Kalash valley is a popular tourist destination. But a recent attack by Taliban […]
Scapegoating the refugee
Pervez Hoodbhoy Published November 18, 2023 HERDED like cattle, over 1,700,000 Muslim refugees — more than twice the number of Palestinians evicted in 1948 by Zionist Israel — are presently being expelled […]
Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN
The restriction on poppy cultivation has decimated a key trade for hundreds of thousands of farmers and laborers. Published On 5 Nov 20235 Nov 2023 An Afghan man works on […]
A Year on, Billions in Afghan Assets Linger in Switzerland
More than a year after the Afghan Fund was created to disburse $3.5 billion in frozen assets for the benefit of the Afghan people, no disbursements have been made. Why? […]
America’s shameful neglect of its Afghan friends and allies
LUKE COFFEY October 06, 2023 Since the Taliban returned to power there has been no shortage of crises facing Afghanistan. A humanitarian disaster is affecting millions of Afghans. Food insecurity […]
Pakistan orders Afghan asylum seekers out of country by November
bbc.com By Frances Mao BBC News Pakistan has ordered all unauthorised Afghan asylum seekers – an estimated 1.7 million people – to leave the country by November. A spike in […]
OIC reminds Afghanistan that education is ‘Islamic obligation for women’
By 5Pillars (RMS) 7th September 2023 A delegation of Muslim scholars from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has reminded Afghanistan’s government on that education is an “Islamic obligation for […]
Taliban stop female Afghan students leaving country to study in Dubai
By Noor Gul ShafaqBBC Afghan“After the Taliban shut universities for women, my only hope was to get a scholarship which would help me study abroad,” says 20-year-old Afghan student Natkai. […]
Student filmmaker in Switzerland highlights plight of Afghan girls
Girls in Afghanistan are forbidden from going to school beyond the sixth grade. A film student in Switzerland has turned his lens on the subject as a way to fight […]
Two years of Taliban 2.0: Its past and present
BY FAZZUR RAHMAN SIDDIQUI AUG 22, 2023 – DAILY SABAH A Taliban fighter stands guard in an amusement park in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 10, 2022. (AP File Photo) After 2 […]
How Washington views the war in Afghanistan two years on
KERRY BOYD ANDERSON August 22, 2023 Two years after the US and its allies withdrew from Afghanistan, partisan political views in Washington have hardened, while foreign policy experts are starting more comprehensive reviews of the entire war. The American public strongly supported pulling out of Afghanistan but was disappointed in […]
Women bear the brunt of Taliban’s gender apartheid
BARIA ALAMUDDIN August 21, 2023 In a country where financial, health and welfare systems have collapsed, half the population are starving, there are four million drug addicts, and 20 percent […]
Afghan women escape for a chance at education
By Gem O’Reilly BBC News In her university room in Bangladesh, Nina, 19, holds her boxing gloves up to her face, staring into the mirror. She is learning to protect herself. She says there is no other way. Nina is one of hundreds of Afghan women who have taken up […]
Wave of changes for Afghans marks 2 years since Taliban takeover
BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE – AFP KABUL AUG 14, 2023 – Taliban soldiers walk on a street in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, Aug. 6, 2023. (Reuters Photo) As the Taliban have settled in as […]
Young Women in Afghanistan on the Taliban. “Your Arrival Transformed My Dreams into Nightmares”
Two years after taking over power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have almost completely excluded women from public life. Here, five women from the country talk about what this has meant […]
The Taliban’s gender crimes against humanity
Aug 13,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Gordon Brown EDINBURGH — Gender persecution is a grievous crime against humanity. Having established gender apartheid by denying girls and women access to education, […]
Afghanistan after US withdrawal; risks of Daesh-Khorasan
Aug 13,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Amer Al Sabaileh Two years have passed since the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, and while international attention is focused on other battlefronts, such as […]
Plight of Afghan women and girls demands urgent global response
DALIA AL-AQIDI August 08, 2023 The aftermath of the embarrassing US withdrawal from Afghanistan has left the country in turmoil, with its citizens, especially women and girls, facing an uncertain […]