Avatar5thSuicide bomb kills Taliban minister in Kabulverified_publisherBBC News - Simon Fraser and Caroline DaviesTaliban refugee minister Khalil Haqqani has been killed in a suicide bombing inside his ministry in Kabul, the movement's most high profile casualty since it returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. Six others died in the blast as Haqqani was leaving his office, interior ministry sources …
Avatar5thTaliban ban photographs of 'all living things' in Afghanistan, claiming it is forbidden under Islamic lawdailymail.co.uk - By ED HOLTThe Taliban has banned photographs of 'all living things' as a part of the regime's extreme interpretation of Islamic law. Afghanistan's morality …
Avatar5thA child bride won the right to divorce - now the Taliban say it doesn't countverified_publisherBBC News - Mamoon DurraniThere is a young woman sheltering under a tree between two busy roads clutching a pile of documents to her chest. These pieces of paper are more important to Bibi Nazdana than anything in the world: they are the divorce granted to her after a two-year court battle to free herself from life as a …
Avatar5thMMA in Afghanistan? Too violent for the Talibanverified_publisherBBC News - Nick MarshAfghanistan's Taliban government has banned mixed martial arts (MMA), saying it is incompatibile with Islamic law. An official from the Taliban's sports authority, speaking to local broadcaster TOLOnews on Tuesday, said that MMA was too violent and posed a risk of death. The order was passed down by …
Avatar5thUN denounces Taliban's ban on women's voices being heard in publicverified_publisherEuronews - By Daniel Bellamy with APThe Taliban’s ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, a top UN official said …
