Afghanistan Taliban order women in Afghanistan to cover up from head to toe Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public, in a sharp turn towards a more hardline enforcement of religious rules. 07/05/2022
Afghanistan Dozens dead after blast at a mosque in Afghanistan Friday's explosion follows a series of attacks in Afghanistan on Thursday. 22/04/2022
Pakistan Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan ousted in no-confidence vote Khan was voted out in the Sunday morning vote after several political allies and a key party in his ruling coalition deserted him. 10/04/2022
Afghanistan Taliban announce ban on harvesting poppies In desperately poor Afghanistan the ban seems certain to further impoverish its poorest citizens at a time when the country is in an economic free fall. 06/04/2022
world news Taliban bans opium as Afghanistan's poppy harvest begins Farmers say the ban will ruin them as many rely on opium revenues to pay their bills. The opium is sold to dealers who process it to produce heroin. 03/04/2022
Afghanistan Dozens protest in Kabul, demanding the Taliban reopens girls’ secondary schools. "Why is it happening to them just because they're girls? Why can't they be studying? Why can’t they be learning?” 27/03/2022
Afghanistan Taliban orders middle and high schools for girls to close It happened on the first day of Afghanistan's new academic year. 23/03/2022
Afghanistan In pictures: Children's fight for survival amid Afghanistan crisis Six months since the Taliban seized Kabul, a humanitarian crisis has developed in Afghanistan that has devastated the lives of children across the country, says Save the Children. 18/02/2022
Afghanistan Meet the Afghans making Europe their home after Taliban takeover It's six months since the Taliban swept back into power in Afghanistan, which, for some, prompted a frantic scramble to get out. We caught up with four Afghans who fled and made Europe their new home. 14/02/2022
Afghanistan Afghans protest US president Biden giving €3.1bn to 9/11 victims The country's economy is teetering on the brink of collapse after international money stopped coming into Afghanistan with the arrival in mid-August of the Taliban, while the citizens are experiencing a mass famine. 12/02/2022
Afghanistan Over 100 ex-Afghan forces and officials slain since August, UN says The United Nations has received “credible allegations” that more than 100 former members of Afghan forces have been killed since the Taliban took over the country. 31/01/2022
New Zealand Journalist denied entry into New Zealand opts for Taliban help Charlotte Bellis' case is one in a number of stories of New Zealand citizens who ended up stranded, causing embarrassment for PM Jacinda Ardern's government. 29/01/2022
Norway Afghan activists demand information on missing women from Taliban Tamana Zaryabi Paryani and Parwana Ibrahimkhel were purportedly arrested last week after a protest against the Taliban reinstatement of the compulsory rule on wearing hijab. 24/01/2022
Norway Talks between Taliban and Western officials get underway in Norway Norway's foreign minister has stressed the visit is does not legitimise or recognise the Taliban, "but we must talk to those who in practice govern the country today". 23/01/2022
Norway Taliban delegation's visit to Norway prompts protest in Oslo A Taliban delegation is due to meet with Norwegian and international authorities in the first such visit to the West since the Afghan takeover last August. 22/01/2022
Spain Madrid university offers young Afghan refugees a future in Spain Five years ago, the Camilo José Cela University became the first in Spain to welcome young people from areas of conflict. 20/01/2022
no comment Desperate Afghans queue for free bread The free bread distribution launched on Saturday is part of the "Save Afghans from Hunger" campaign organised by a university professor in Kabul. 18/01/2022
See 'Bacha posh: where young girls secretly live as boys in Afghanistan 'Bacha posh' presents both harrowing joys and traumatic limitations to families who choose to partake in the Afghan custom with their daughters. 18/01/2022
Afghanistan Extreme poverty drives Afghans to sell vital organs In the western province of Herat, people in dire need of money have taken to risking their lives by selling their kidneys. 12/01/2022
See Public portrait gallery of conflict casualties taken down by Taliban The organisers want the governments in charge of Afghanistan to be held responsible for the atrocities of war. 11/01/2022
no comment Taliban religious police issue posters ordering women to cover up Taliban religious police issue posters ordering women to cover up 07/01/2022
no comment Harsh winter and snowfall deepen ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan Snowfall and dropping temperatures have increased the problems of the poor and needy people across Afghanistan. The harsh conditions have especially hit displaced people, many of whom are forced to spend their nights in simple shacks or even tents with no heating. 05/01/2022
See The art of war: Taliban turn blast walls into propaganda art An outdoor exhibit featuring destroyed US military hardware, vehicles and blast walls is on display in Ghazni, Afghanistan, as a reminder of the Taliban's return to power. 04/01/2022
Afghanistan Taliban denies freeing suicide bomber before deadly Kabul attack The explosion killed almost 200 people and 13 American troops at Kabul's airport in August last year. 04/01/2022
Afghanistan Afghan agents pour 3,000 litres of liquor in Kabul canal, arrest three Three dealers were arrested on Sunday in the latest Taliban crackdown on the selling of alcohol. 03/01/2022
Afghanistan 'Not needed': Taliban shut down ministries and election commissions The Taliban-run government of Afghanistan shut down two election commissions and peace and parliamentarian affairs ministries, deeming them to be "unnecessary institutions". 26/12/2021
