Taliban, Afghan women

Taliban deputy urges leader to lift education bans on Afghan women and girls
A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.
In Rare Snub To Taliban, Afghanistan Minister Calls For Scrapping Ban On Education For Women
A senior Taliban government official has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls during a speech at a religious school in southeastern Khost province on Saturday, as reported by news agency The Associated Press (AP).
Senior Taliban person urges group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women, girls
Senior Taliban official calls for end to education bans on Afghan women and girls, challenging government policy publicly.
Afghan Taliban absent from moot on girls' education
Afghanistan's Taliban government on Saturday did not send its envoy to a global summit on the education of Muslim girls which was also attended by Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.
Taliban Deputy Foreign Minister Calls for Girls' High Schools to Open
The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister called on his senior leadership to open schools for Afghan girls, among the strongest public rebukes of a policy that has contributed to the international isolation of its rulers.
Taliban minister urges leadership to lift Afghan female education ban
The rare public rebuke from Sher Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban deputy foreign minister, comes amid persistent international calls for Afghanistan’s rulers to permit girls’ education in secondary school
Senior Taliban official calls for end of ban on education for women and girls
A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them. In a rare public rebuke of government policy, Sher Abbas Stanikzai,
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Why India is reaching out to the Taliban now
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Former Pakistani Envoy: Majority of Afghans don’t support Taliban
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Defence Czar denounces Afghanistan’s ‘baseless’ allegations of terrorist training centres
ISLAMABAD: Defense Minister Khawaja Asif on Sunday strongly rejected the recent allegations made by Afghanistan's acting ...