A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no ...

“The ban on girls’ education must be lifted without delay, as it has no foundation in Islam and is wholly unjustified in ...

On the occasion of International Education Day, UNICEF announced that in 2024, floods in Afghanistan destroyed or damaged 110 schools, disrupting the education of thousands of students.

The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has conditionally agreed to allow Afghan women to pursue higher education in Pakistan. This agreement hinges on the condition that their male guardians, or ...

As reported by Arshad Mehmood, Stanikzai’s bold appeal is the first public challenge from a senior Taliban leader against the ...

On International Day of Education, UNAMA urges the Taliban to lift their ban on female education, affecting millions of ...

In Afghanistan, women and girls can only be ... said Stanikzai had periodically made statements calling girls’ education a right of all Afghan women. “However, this latest statement seems ...

The Taliban authorities that rule Afghanistan have imposed a severe interpretation of Islamic law on the population, heavily ...

Zalmay Khalilzad, former US special envoy for Afghanistan, called Afghan deputy foreign minister Stanikzai's critique of the ...

An Afghan women's group is welcoming the decision by the International Criminal Court to arrest Taliban leaders for their ...