[ad_1] Powerful earthquakes in Afghanistan have killed more than 2,000 people and injured more than 9,000, the Taliban administration said on Sunday, in the deadliest tremors in years in the quake-prone mountainous country. Amid the confusion, the death toll from Saturday’s quakes spiked from 500 reported on Sunday morning by a Red Crescent spokesperson and…
[ad_1] US officials told Afghanistan’s Taliban that Washington was open to technical talks on economic stability and discussions on combating narcotics trafficking, the US State Department said on Monday following two days of talks in Qatar. Taliban officials raised the lifting of travel and other restrictions on Taliban leaders and the return of Afghan central…
[ad_1] Malala Yousafzai has playful “Barbie” moment Malala Yousafzai has playful “Barbie” moment with husband 00:37 “Barbie” has touted itself as being a film for everyone. And apparently, that includes the renowned girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai. “This Barbie has a Nobel Prize,” she wrote on Instagram along with an image of her and her…
[ad_1] Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban government has barred girls and women from high schools and universities, banned them from parks, funfairs and gyms, and ordered them to cover up in public. Women have also mostly been barred from working for the United Nations or NGOs, and thousands have been sacked from…
[ad_1] Taliban’s interim foreign minister gets UN clearance to travel for meeting with counterparts in Pakistan. Pakistan’s UN mission requested an exemption for Muttaqi to travel between May 6 and 9 “for a meeting with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China”. A United Nations Security Council committee has agreed to allow the Taliban’s interim foreign…
