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Sohaila Noori, 29, owner of a sewing workshop, poses at her workshop in Kabul, Afghanistan January 15, 2022. Photo: Reuters
South Asia

Afghan women losing jobs fast as economy shrinks and rights curtailed

Women's employment was expected to be 21% lower than it was before the Taliban takeover by mid-2022 if current conditions continued, according to the ILO

Kabul University law professor Faizullah Jalal (pictured with his wife Massouda during a trip to Paris in 2004) has long had a reputation as a critic of Afghanistan's leaders. Photo: AFP
South Asia

Taliban arrest Afghan professor after social media criticism

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South Asia

Afghan agents pour 3,000 litres of liquor into Kabul canal

Afghan lawyer Bibi Chaman Hafizi poses for a picture in her apartment in Athens, Greece, October 15, 2021.Photo :Reuters
World+Biz

Canada to resettle female Afghan judges, families living in limbo

Afghan collaborators, their families, Spanish soldiers and members of the embassy board a Spanish military plane as part of their evacuation, at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 27, 2021. Ministry of Defense of Spain/Handout via REUTERS
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Pilots detail chaotic collapse of the Afghan Air Force

A soldier stands guard along the border fence outside the Kitton outpost on the border with Afghanistan in North Waziristan, Pakistan October 18, 2017. Photo :Reuters
South Asia

Afghan Taliban stop Pakistan army from fencing international border

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South Asia

Taliban govt resumes issuing Afghan passports in Kabul

A Taliban fighter guards a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 16, 2021. Photo :Reuters
South Asia

Afghan Taliban leaders appeal for help as migrant crisis looms

A boy sleeps as he rides a bicycle in Kabul, Afghanistan October 18, 2021. Photo: Reuters
South Asia

Donors back $280 million transfer for Afghan food, health

Afghan girls play in a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 18, 2021. Photo :Reuters
South Asia

Afghan girls take exams for Turkish-run schools in Kabul

A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 17, 2021.Representational image. Photo: Reuters
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UN envoy says Islamic State now appears present in all Afghan provinces

An Afghan map with the Taliban flag an graffiti reading: 'The Emirate is the achievement of sacred ideals' is seen on the concrete walls of the abandoned U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
South Asia

Blast reported in mosque in Afghanistan, several wounded

Mansoor, 10, looks out the window at the family's new apartment, which they had moved to the night before, in Tukwila, Washington, U.S. November 3, 2021. While attempting to escape during the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in August, Mansoor was separated from his parents and siblings at the airport, and later boarded an evacuation flight with his mother's cousin Shogofa and her family. Picture taken November 3, 2021. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson
South Asia

When are my parents coming?' - 1,300 Afghan children evacuated to US in limbo