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Taliban morality enforcers arrest men for having the wrong hairstyle or skipping mosque

  • UN report says the morality police regularly detained people arbitrarily “without due process and legal protections”
  • During month of Ramadan, men’s attendance at mandated congregational prayers was closely monitored
By AP ·
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‘No one to return to’: Afghans fear Pakistan deportation

By AFP ·

Trafficking of NATO, Soviet arms continues in Afghanistan, Pakistan years after Taliban takeover — report

By KASHIF IMRAN ·

Pakistan’s special envoy visits Afghanistan amid deepening tensions over militancy

By Muhammad Ibrahim ·

Thousands attend funeral of senior Pakistani cleric slain in northwest

By AP ·
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Top cleric among six killed in suspected suicide blast in Pakistan’s northwest

By REHMAT MEHSUD ·

Pakistan closes key border crossing with Afghanistan over ‘construction of trenches’ by Taliban authorities

By REHMAT MEHSUD ·

With formal education banned, Afghan sisters find empowerment in art

By MODASER ISLAMI ·

Islamabad says unaware of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s decision to engage Kabul on militancy

By SAIMA SHABBIR ·

Kabul continues to support Pakistani Taliban, recent UN report says

By KASHIF IMRAN ·

UN agencies express concern over Pakistan’s directive for Afghan nationals to leave capital

By Arab News Pakistan ·

Afghan deputy governor’s son among four militants killed in northwest Pakistan — state media

By Arab News Pakistan ·

Afghanistan’s only luxury hotel, Serena, closes as Taliban take over operations

By MODASER ISLAMI ·

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Abdul Basit Khan
Ideological disagreements may be the Taliban’s Achilles heel
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Abdul Basit
Pakistan can do better on Afghanistan
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Rustam Shah Mohmand
The great failure of America’s policy imagination is its Taliban misperception
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Naila Mahsud
Islamabad squeezes Kabul, but will it work?
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Naila Mahsud
Afghan women and their unmourned rights
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