"It doesn't even have to be Afghan girls. For me, it is about representing women who don't have access and a voice. "I want to inspire, but also show the ones in power that if someone is given a ...

The Afghan Centre for Human Rights calls the ban on older girls attending school a "systematic and targeted violation" of their right to quality education. Before the Taliban return, the number of ...

ISLAMABAD, March 23 (Reuters) - Pakistan's army has killed 16 Islamist militants along the country's western border with Afghanistan, a statement said on Sunday. It said border troops killed all ...

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THE latest clashes between Pakistani and Afghan security forces are yet another sign of the deepening rift between the two neighbours. Just three years after the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul ...

But with recent funding cuts under U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, she worries other Afghan women like her won't have the same chance to get a formal education. She says having ...

They have gradually erased Afghan women from public space, imposing what the United Nations has called a "gender apartheid". They outlawed the loose headscarves commonly worn by urban women.

Pakistan has ramped up pressure on Afghan refugees to leave the country, despite serious risks of persecution and economic hardship under Taliban rule, according to a leading human rights ...

Burqa-clad Afghan women walk on a street in a mostly Afghan neighbourhood in Karachi, Pakistan, in January 2024. A new Human Rights Watch report says that Afghan refugees are facing 'intensified ...

Jeanne Shaheen, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's ranking Democrat, wrote to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday urging him to accelerate the immigration process for Afghan Special ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rahmani, an Afghan refugee and father of two, plays with his daughter at the apartment where they were ...

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