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AT Kabul: Dozens of women marched in Afghanistan against the Taliban’s decision to ban female students from university. Women marched the streets shouting ‘everyone or no one’ after the ban was announced by the higher education minister on Tuesday. Demonstrations broke out in Kabul after female students were turned away …

AT Kabul: Former President Hamid Karzai has thanked and appreciated Al-Azhar University, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, United Nations and other countries of the world for their clear stance in supporting the right to education and higher education. Karzai, besides stressing the vital and basic value of education for the growth, …

AT Kabul: Russia and India are ready to help revive ‘intra-Afghan talks’ if the Taliban want so, Moscow’s special representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said on Friday. He told The Hindu if the caretaker government of Taliban wanted their assistance, Moscow and New Delhi were ready to help and play …

AT Kabul: The Taliban government’s education minister has defended the decision to impose an indefinite ban on university education for women in Afghanistan despite the international outcry. Speaking to Afghan state broadcaster RTA on Thursday, he said that several issues had prompted the decision, including female students’ not wearing appropriate …

AT Kabul: Former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has met with China’s leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, the Kremlin announced on Wednesday — hours after Ukraine confirmed its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was en route to Washington to visit his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden. Medvedev, who is now the deputy chairman …

AT Kabul: The top UN envoy for Afghanistan said Tuesday that engagement with the Afghan Taliban by the international community must continue in some form. “Afghans want continued engagement from the international community and believe that it is only through increased interaction with the authorities that positive change can take …

AT Kabul: The Taliban have released two Americans that had been in detention in Afghanistan, the state department said on Tuesday – the same day that they faced condemnation for banning women at universities. “This, we understand, to have been a goodwill gesture on the part of the Taliban. This …

AT Kabul: Following the decision by the Taliban to close down universities for girls and women for an unspecified period, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation OIC Secretary-General Hussain Ibrahim Taha, expresses his grave concern & denunciation of this disconcerting decision It is stated in this statement that this move through …

AT Kabul: The Taliban’s decision to suspended access to universities for female students, drawing strong condemnation both in the country and abroad. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement that he is “deeply alarmed by news reports that the Taliban have suspended access to universities to women and …

AT Kabul: The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, expresses his deep regret on the decision of the Taliban to close the doors of universities to girls. Hamid Karzai considers the country’s development, settlement and self-sufficiency to be dependent on the education of every child, girl and boy. Blocking education …