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From women can't be ministers to no co-education, a look at the new Taliban's perspective on women's rights
Fp Staff •Recent controversial comments by Taliban leaders, like that of Hashimi, have exposed the Taliban’s true nature as it ignores women, who make up half of the population of the war-torn country
'Don't want to turn the clock back': Taliban allows women to study, but conditions apply
•The Taliban have suggested they have changed, including in their attitudes toward women. However, women have been banned from sports and the Taliban have used violence in recent days against women protesters demanding equal rights.
No country for women: Taliban's all-male cabinet stirs fear of a 'dark future'
Fp Staff •Women in the country allege they have been relegated to their houses and that the progress they had made has already been overturned
From fear to uncertainty: Afghan families start new lives in US, UK
Fp Staff •Tired, scared and mostly overwhelmed, Afghanis, who escaped from Taliban-controlled Kabul, are set to begin their second innings in foreign lands away from their homes
Taliban, ISIS, Al Qaeda, Haqqanis are heads of the same monster in Pakistan’s zoo of terror
Abhijit Majumder •Jihadi groups across the world are cut from the same ideological cloth. But in Afghanistan, the deep bonds go beyond ideology
US says another attack on Kabul airport highly likely; warns people to clear area immediately
•The Pentagon said the remaining contingent of US forces at the airport, now numbering fewer than 4,000, had begun their final withdrawal ahead of Biden's deadline for ending the evacuation on Tuesday
At least seven Afghans killed in chaos near Kabul airport, says UK defence ministry
•The ministry said separately that the UK had now evacuated nearly 4,000 people from Afghanistan since 13 August