Tag: Talibans

united nations —  U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said Wednesday that the international community’s best leverage to persuade the Taliban to reverse restrictions on Afghan women’s rights is the group’s desire for international recognition. “I went into Afghanistan thinking perhaps the most conservative of them didn’t care ...

The US is an encouragement itself. Its own drone attacks against the TTP leaders – which virtually decimated an entire level of its leaders in 2017 – contributed heavily to the relative peace Pakistan enjoyed, thereafter. That, however, pointed to a level of intelligence on the ground that it ...

Source link www.rferl.org Taliban security forces have used violence and arrested several people as they dispersed a protest by Afghan women against a ruling that bans female students from universities. Afghanistan's Taliban announced the decision to forbid women from universities late on December 20 in a letter from the ...

If there were any illusions about Pakistan having secured peace on its western frontier after the Afghan Taliban’s return to power last August, they should have been dispelled by now.The escalation in border clashes and the Afghan Taliban’s patronage of the Pakistani outlawed militant network have heightened national security ...

For the first time since seizing power last year, the Taliban have publicly executed a man in a staged “death show.”For those living under the Afghan regime, this week’s execution served as a gruesome reminder of an era many thought they would never see again.A man identified as Tajmir ...

ISLAMABADPakistani Taliban’s decision to break a cease-fire with the government and resume attacks in the country should be a matter of concern for the Afghan Taliban, the interior minister said on Thursday."TTP is enjoying all sorts of facilities in Afghanistan," Rana Sanaullah said, referring to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, a conglomerate ...

When asked in a recent interview to assess the Taliban’s first year back in power, Afghanistan’s former President Hamid Karzai (2002-2014) delivered a fair summary: the Taliban have brought an “…end to widespread fighting and conflict”, he said but the Afghan people cannot “find themselves” in the government and ...

KABUL, Afghanistan As the Taliban celebrate their first year of second rule in Afghanistan, the war-torn country -- where security has improved relatively -- is still embroiled in economic and humanitarian crises.Another issue for which the Taliban got global flak is the status of women and girls' education.The Taliban ...

KABUL, Afghanistan As the Taliban celebrate their first year of second rule in Afghanistan, the war-torn country -- where security has improved relatively -- is still embroiled in economic and humanitarian crises.Another issue for which the Taliban got global flak is the status of women and girls' education.The Taliban ...

#Pakistan News Afghanistan’s current leadership must show pragmatism, should find a way to provide common sense with global and regional powers, and hope and wait for the financial aid they desperately need to revive the war-battered country’s economy. The leopard never changes its spots, they say. A year after ...