Since the Taliban takeover last year, over one million Afghans have sought refuge in Iran, taking the total number of Afghan refugees in the country to a whopping five million

By 2019, a total of 17,369  businesses were owned by women—most of them were less than five years old then—and created around 129,000 jobs in the country, according to a study conducted by Afghanistan’s Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry

EU lawmakers also deplored the steadily deteriorating situation of women and girls in Afghanistan since the Taliban's return to power in 2021

Since August last year, when the Taliban came to power, over a million Afghans fled to Iran, taking the total number of Afghan refugees in the country to almost five million

Over the past four decades now, the poppy has become an integral part of the country’s informal rural economy, primarily due to the relatively stable income that it provides in challenging times

Wang, who visited Kabul last week,  also suggested promoting  “greater trilateral practical cooperation” among China, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in the field of politics, development, and security to promote mutual and common interests for the benefit of the people

The punitive move, however, will hurt more common Afghans than those intransigent leaders of the Islamist regime

Since its return to power last year, the ultra-conservative group has imposed several restrictions—banning senior girls from education, segregation of public spaces like parks and offices, restricting women’s freedom to travel alone, and now banning male employees without beards— in an attempt to return to their hardline Islamist rule of the 1990s

Over two dozen protesters, mainly women, and girls, on Saturday took out a rally in Kabul and marched to the Taliban’s Ministry of Education, demanding of their rulers not share in power or representation—something witnessed in previous protests - but only reopening of schools for girls

Multiple media reports said girls in Kandahar and other provinces were not allowed to enter their schools on Tuesday by local Taliban leaders, despite a clear order from the central authority

In what comes to a big relief for Afghan girls, the Taliban, Afghanistan’s de facto authority, said they will open all schools—both for boys and girls—from next week in the country

Afghan Film, Afghanistan’s state-run film production company, now controlled by a Taliban grandee, screened two documentaries as “entertainment programs” - but without featuring any female actor and music, a stark reminder of the tectonic cultural and social changes the country has gone through when the Islamists seized power in August last year

An ISKP militant from the southern Indian state of Kerala has died in Afghanistan, possibly as a suicide bomber, the group said in its latest publication, without giving details on the circumstances around the attack he died in

When asked if the Taliban would be able to provide security guarantees if India re-opens its embassy, Karzai said, “Absolutely.”

At least 23 million of the total 37 million people, roughly two-thirds of the population, are facing acute hunger