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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicAfghan Women

Topic: Afghan Women

As Taliban declares war on verse, Afghan women lose their only weapon, but say silence won’t last

Law bans romantic poetry, criticism of Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, or references to 'un-Islamic' ideologies, feminism, communism, democracy, & nationalism.

ICC warrant against Taliban chief gives world a second chance to do right in Afghanistan

The International Criminal Court at The Hague has issued arrest warrants against the supreme leader of Afghanistan, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and his chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani.

Senior Afghanistan official who called Taliban’s education ban for girls ‘un-Islamic’ leaves for UAE

An arrest warrant was issued against deputy foreign minister Abbas Stanikzai, say local reports. However, Stanikzai maintains he is travelling to the UAE because of health issues

Security Council voices support for Mission in Afghanistan, Afghan people

The Council reaffirmed its strong commitment to Afghanistan's sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, and national unity.

Taliban makes women unsafe everywhere. ‘Not as bad as in Afghanistan’ is now a dangerous tool

One important lesson that can be drawn from Meryl Streep’s speech is that a powerful woman in the West can use her influence for the cause of uplifting oppressed Muslim women.

‘Indefensible’: UNSC condemns Taliban ban on Afghan women working for UN

UAE UN envoy Lana Nusseibeh said over 90 countries co-sponsored the resolution 'from Afghanistan's immediate neighbourhood, from the Muslim world and from all corners of the earth.'

In Afghanistan’s Herat, Taliban bans women from ‘restaurants with gardens’ to bar ‘mingling with men’

The ban on families and women comes after complaints from religious scholars about some parks being disguised as restaurants where men and women would fraternise.

UN Afghan employees told to stay home after Taliban ban its female staffers from working

The UN is looking into impacts and will meet with Afghan foreign ministry officials in Kabul on Wednesday to seek further clarity, he said. About 400 Afghan women work for the UN.

Crushed dreams, threats, marriage ‘for safety’ — what life is like for educated Afghan women

Far from a life filled with hopes of a bright future, Afghan women are getting trapped in domestic drudgery since Taliban enforced diktat quashing their rights to higher education.

For Afghan women, world is uniting again—this time to leave them to their fate

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan banned women from universities—the latest in a series of measures which mark the descent of an iron veil over Afghanistan.

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.