Afghanistan

Iran minister proposes joint team with Afghanistan to address water rights issues

Tehran’s interior minister says a joint team should be established to assess the amount of water in the Kajaki Dam.

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Afghanistan: Jawzjan women learn new skills amid ongoing education ban

Young women in the northern province are turning to handicraft workshops to learn new skills in order to stave off.

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UN finds Afghanistan remained top opium producer last year

UNODC’s World Drug Report 2023 says Afghanistan produced 80% of the world’s total 7,800 tons of the drug in 2022

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Afghanistan: Private universities in Takhar on verge of closure as education ban continues

Union of private universities said that people’s interest in attending university entrance exams has reduced.

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Iran ‘sends back’ over 90,000 migrants to Afghanistan in past three months

Iranian officials say the migrants returned voluntarily but activists dispute this, saying many were deported ‘forcefully and violently’

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Exiled journalists in Pakistan face ongoing problems with local police

Journalists from Afghanistan who have taken refuge in Pakistan say the UN and journalists’ rights organizations are ‘indifferent’ to their.

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Female students in Afghanistan: With universities closed, we have no future

Young women across the country continue to battle a range of emotions as they remain shuttered in their homes, deprived.

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Taliban leader makes no mention of girls’ education in Eid message

Akhundzada claims all discrimination in the country has been removed and that the country has become economically ‘self-sufficient’.

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Concerns grow over ‘relocation’ of suspected TTP families to Kunduz and Takhar

A steady influx of people from Pakistan to the northern provinces has raised concerns with critics saying this will lead.

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Badakhshan women start businesses to help other women

Amid ongoing restrictions on women and girls in the northern province of Afghanistan, women are starting up businesses to survive

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