The Taliban did not immediately comment on Pakistani assertions that they would let Afghan girls pursue higher education in the neighboring country. Pakistan offers fully funded scholarships to ...

Novak Djokovic booed off after withdrawing from semi-final against Alexander Zverev Taliban reject court move to arrest top officials for persecuting Afghan women and girls Reduce cholesterol ...

In this bleak landscape, online education has emerged as the only hope for an estimated 1.4 million Afghan girls over the age of 12, desperate to continue learning. Yet, this alternative is fraught ...

It had previously been disrupted after the Taliban regained power in 2021, banning girls’ education beyond the sixth grade and restricting Afghan women from traveling without male companions.

Karim Khan said that a crime against humanity was being committed by top officials against “Afghan women and girls, as well as ... France-Presse — Getty Images A panel of three judges issues ...

“It is a travesty and tragedy that millions of Afghan girls have been stripped of their right to education.” Afghanistan is the only country in the world that explicitly bars women and girls ...

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut has spoken out against claims that his famous 1972 photo of a terrified child running from a napalm bomb attack on her village during the Vietnam War ...

It took Susan Salih about eight hours to travel from Kabul, Afghanistan, to Peshawar, Pakistan, to take a scholarship exam the Pakistani government offers to Afghan ... for those girls who now ...

Students attend a graduation ceremony for Afghan girls at Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani Religious School in Kabul on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE In a statement, the Afghan Women’s Movement for Justice and ...

“It is a travesty and tragedy that millions of Afghan girls have been stripped of their right to education. No country has ever thrived by disempowering and leaving behind half its population ...

“It is a travesty and tragedy that millions of Afghan girls have been stripped of their right to education.” “Afghanistan is the only country in the world that explicitly bars women and ...