Five Afghan families who have been sponsored by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) remain stranded, desperately awaiting humanitarian visas to be issued by the Australian government. Key points: The families have been waiting for updates about the visas since September The Australian Olympic Committee raised the plight of the families last week More than…
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Girls’ education ban won’t last, Nobel laureate Malala tells Taliban
Doha – The Taliban’s ban on girls’ education won’t last forever, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai said on Saturday, emphasizing that Afghan women now know what it is to be “empowered.” The hard-line Afghan regime closed girls’ secondary schools just hours after reopening them this week, prompting a small protest by…
Taliban delegation’s visit to Norway prompts protest in Oslo
There was a small protest of Afghan citizens in Oslo ahead of the Taliban’s visit to the Norwegian capital on Sunday. They’re against the delegation meeting with Norwegian authorities and representatives from the international community for talks. It’s the first visit to the West since they took control of Kabul…
Taliban arrest popular Afghan professor critical of regime
The Taliban have arrested a popular university professor and outspoken critic of successive Afghan governments, including the new rulers in Kabul, the group’s spokesman said on Sunday. Zabihullah Mujahid said in a tweet that professor Faizuallah Jalal was being held by the Taliban’s intelligence arm. The group accused the professor…
Taliban denies freeing suicide bomber before deadly Kabul attack
The Taliban has strongly denied US claims that it was responsible for setting free the Islamic State-linked suicide bomber who killed almost 200 people and 13 American troops at Kabul’s airport in August last year. Five months after the withdrawal of US forces and a bloody suicide attack at Abby-Gates…
Taliban: committed to giving education, jobs to girls, women
Foreign Minister says regime wants good relations with U.S. Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are committed in principle to education and jobs for girls and women, a marked departure from their previous time in power, and they seek the world’s “mercy and compassion” to help millions of Afghans in desperate need,…
Hazara elders pledge support for Taliban
More than 1,000 Afghan Shia Hazaras pledged their support on Thursday to the country’s new Taliban rulers, insisting that the “dark period” of previous Western-backed Governments had ended with the return of the Islamists. Afghanistan’s Hazaras have been persecuted by Sunni Islamists for centuries, but on Thursday community elders gathered…
Chinese firms eye Afghanistan’s lithium
With Taliban nod, companies have begun ‘inspections’ of possible projects to tap lithium deposits A number of Chinese companies have already begun “on-site inspections” of possible projects to tap lithium deposits in Afghanistan, having received the green light to do so from the Taliban regime, according to a report in…
Pakistan will consider transit facilities of Indian wheat: Imran Khan
Mr. Khan assures assistance to Afghanistan. Pakistan will “favourably consider” transit facilities if Indian wheat is sent to Afghanistan, said Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday. The offer has been welcomed by the Taliban administration in Kabul, which reiterated the call for urgent assistance to Afghanistan. “The Prime Minister…
T20 World Cup 2021: Short Break Between IPL, T20 WC Could Have Helped Team India, Says Bharat Arun | Cricket News
T20 WC: India lost both their opening matches vs Pakistan and New Zealand respectively.© Instagram India bowling coach Bharat Arun on Sunday said that the toss is playing a very big role in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, and the team chasing is having an undue advantage as…