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Taliban pledge no interference with quake aid, but many await relief
Even before Wednesday’s quake, the country was in the grip of a humanitarian crisis.
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Even before Wednesday’s quake, the country was in the grip of a humanitarian crisis.
Since seizing power last year, the Taliban have rolled back the marginal gains made by women during the two decades of US intervention in Afghanistan.
This month Afghanistan’s supreme leader issued a diktat for women to cover up fully in public, including their faces.
The order came in a statement from the Taliban’s Virtue and Vice Ministry.
Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada also said that if women had no important work outside it was “better they stay at home”.
At least 11 other people were wounded by two bomb blasts at a boys’ school in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
The UN said it was “deeply concerned” by the civilian deaths caused by air strikes.
“If the girls’ schools remain closed even after one week, we will open them ourselves.”
The Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on women since returning to power.
The international community has appealed to Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to allow girls to return to school.
The resolution, which avoids using the word Taliban, will allow the UN to continue its “crucial” work in Afghanistan.
Most secondary schools for girls and all public universities were closed when the Taliban seized power last August.
A Taliban delegation is in Geneva, Switzerland for a week of talks.
No country has formally recognised the government installed after the Taliban seized power.
Manizha worked as a dentist in Afghanistan prior to the Taliban takeover in August 2021.
Some 55% of the Afghan population is now suffering from hunger, according to the United Nations.
The UN report said that, in addition to the political killings, women’s freedoms and the right to protest had also been curbed.
Charlotte Bellis said she had to turn to the Taliban for help after her requests to return home were rejected.
Boris Johnson has been accused of lying after leaked emails contradicted his stance of denying his involvement.
Ashraf Ghani denied claims his exit scuppered hopes of a deal with the Taliban and also said he had not left with a stolen fortune.
The Taliban has also dissolved Afghanistan’s two election commissions.
The international community has so far not recognised the present Taliban government that was formed soon after the chaotic withdrawal of US-led foreign troops.
Allied Western countries called on the Taliban to end the targeted killings of former members of Afghan security forces.
UN officials have warned of a humanitarian disaster.
Afghanistan’s Taliban-appointed foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, did not attend the meeting.
Two blasts struck close to the entrance of the site followed by reports of shooting inside the hospital.
The Taliban have declared an Islamic emirate governed under the movement’s hardline interpretation of religious law.
Afghanistan’s new rulers are seeking assistance to avoid a humanitarian disaster.
The American government says this will not amount to recognition of Afghanistan’s new rulers.
The US delegation will meet this weekend in the Qatari capital Doha.
The effects of drought, soaring food prices and job losses have been compounded by international aid and financing all but grinding to a halt.
Graphic images showed bloody bodies on the back of a pick-up truck while a crane hoisted one man up.
Since the Taliban seized control Afghans have been watching to see whether they will recreate their harsh rule of the late 1990s.
Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar, the heartland of the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan branch.
In Kabul, workers were seen raising a sign for the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
This is the first time a member of the Taliban-run cabinet has reaffirmed its commitment on this issue.
Some officials from the previous government and their relatives were detained and later found deceased.
Concerns about women’s rights have continued to grow since the Taliban took over Afghanistan last month.
It represented a breakthrough in the bumpy coordination between the US and the new Taliban leaders.
A small rally in the capital Kabul today was quickly dispersed by armed Taliban security.