3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (613+ words) Samira says the Taliban judge told her, “Either you live with your husband, or you spend two or three months in prison so that you learn to value him.” According to her, her husband is addicted to drugs, and she…...

4+ day, 16+ min ago   (110+ words) Hamid Karzai, former president of Afghanistan, has called on Pakistan to reverse its decision to expel Afghan medical students from the country. The former president wrote on X on Thursday, September 10, that Pakistan’s decision to prevent Afghan students from continuing…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (187+ words) MAHMUD HAMS / AFP Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, has strongly criticized the Taliban’s restrictions on women, calling for their complete abolition and for the meaningful and equal participation of women in all aspects of Afghan society. Guterres wrote…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (185+ words) Local sources say the Taliban have made growing beards and wearing turbans mandatory for professors and staff members of Helmand State University. The sources told the Hasht-e Subh Daily on Saturday, September 5, that during a two-day seminar, the Taliban instructed…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (210+ words) Women for Afghanistan, in collaboration with the City of Geneva and the Irish and Canadian missions to the United Nations, has launched a new framework to strengthen accountability mechanisms in Afghanistan. The organization announced on Saturday, September 5, that the framework…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (168+ words) M. Elham/ Zan Times The Taliban have announced that a six-year-old girl in Garmser district of Helmand province was married to a 60-year-old man in exchange for 200,000 Pakistani rupees. The Taliban’s media office in Helmand said in a statement on Sunday,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (264+ words) Arman (pseudonym), who has been ill for several weeks, says he has seen no results despite visiting several doctors. He says the entire medical system has become commercialized: when patients go to public hospitals, doctors hand them the card and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (157+ words) M. Elham/ Zan Times Local sources say that an 80-year-old man in Nad Ali district of Helmand province has married an eight-year-old girl. Sources told the Hasht-e Subh Daily on Saturday, August 29, that the girl’s father had married her off to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (132+ words) UN Women has announced that women and girls in Afghanistan are deprived of equal rights and fair access to justice. The organization said on Tuesday, August 25, in a post on X that five years after the Taliban took power, half…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (133+ words) The Taliban have announced that construction of a health center in Panjshir province, costing $35,000, has been completed and the facility has been put into operation. Bakhtar News Agency, under Taliban control, reported on Monday, August 24, that the health center was…...