Human rights, especially the rights of Afghan women have been curtailed ever since the takeover of power by the Taliban in Afghanistan. In the latest, Taliban have fired pepper spray on agroup of women protesters in the Afghan capital. The women were demanding the rights to work and education.

Sufferings of women continue in Taliban controlled Afghanistan

Nepal Government on Sunday provided humanitarian assistance weighing over 14 tonnes to Afghanistan. For the first time in modern history, Nepal has provided humanitarian assistance to a foreign country.

Nepal provides over 14 tonnes of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, the ATMs will now be operational from Saturday (January 15) for the first time since the country's takeover by the Taliban, the central bank informed as per reports.

For the first time since Taliban takeover, ATMs to get operational in Afghanistan

The Taliban administration has now approved its very first budget for the country. The budget has come for the first time since the hardline Islamists have managed to return back to power on the 15th of August last year.

The Taliban administration has now approved its very first budget for the Afghanistan

The Taliban has released its first budget since taking over Afghanistan last year in August as the hardline Islamist regime is planning to spend on development projects including transport infrastructure.

Taliban release first budget since Afghan takeover. Here's what it includes

$508 Million budget approved for the 1st quarter by the Taliban administration in Afghanistan

Taliban administration approves the first budget since the takeover of the Afghanistan

A financial crisis is intensifying in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. In the face of economic hardship, the Taliban administration is expanding its food for work program.

Taliban increase payment to workers in Wheat amid the ongoing financial crisis in Afghanistan

When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan last summer, it was left with a critical choice: allow the collapse of a state that had mostly been kept afloat by foreign aid or work with the Taliban, its former foes who were in power, to prevent that outcome.

Afghanistan is in meltdown, and the US is helping to speed it up

It was 20 years ago when the jihadi, a defence ministry official in the Taliban’s first government, fled Afghanistan as U.S. troops swept into the country. He settled in southwestern Pakistan with other Afghans, bought a house and became a baker.

The Taliban have staffing issues. They are looking for help in Pakistan

Jacinda Adern-led government in New Zealand is facing heat for resettling Afghanistan’s former vice president and his 13 family members in the country while hundreds of Afghans who helped New Zealand forces remain trapped abroad and in fear for their lives.

NZ govt slammed for prioritising resettlement of Afghan ex-VP over others

The United States on Tuesday promised more than $308 million in an initial aid package for Afghanistan this year. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said in a statement that it will provide for food and nutrition for vulnerable people, health care facilities, winterisation programmes and logistics support.

United States pledges over $300 million in aid for Afghanistan

Taliban spokesperson has claimed to meet Afghanistan's National Resistance Front leaders Ahmad Massoud in Iran which the NRF has reportedly denied and has said that no such meeting was held. Now, the development comes just days after clashes were reported in the Panjshir valley, the NRF was leading the resistance movement since Afghanistan's Taliban takeover in August.

Afghanistan Resistance Chief Ahmad Massoud in talks with Taliban? | World English News

In Afghanistan, since the Taliban has taken, over the charge of the country back in August, the media houses have started disappearing or they simply have not been allowed to function as media houses. An export gets you all the details

Afghanistan: 231 media outlets have shut down since August

In Afghanistan patriarchal traditions, poverty and, lack of education have stifled women's rights for decades. Here's a heart-wrenching ordeal of a 22-year-old woman married off as a mere child. She is now living in one of the few shelters for battered women that still exists in Afghanistan under the Taliban's rule. This is her story of abuse, torture, and sorrow.

Poverty, lack of education hampers women's rights in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Taliban claims it met with Resistance leader Ahmad Massoud, NRF denies | World News

Iran will be assisting India in providing aid to Afghanistan which has been hit by a humanitarian crisis. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made this offer during a telephonic conversation with the Indian with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.

Iran to assist India in transporting aid to poverty-stricken Afghanistan

The Taliban have arrested a prominent Afghan scholar who has openly criticised the group's hardline regime, said a government spokesman. Faizullah Jalal, the professor, has in past made several appearances on TV since the Taliban took power in August 2021.

Taliban arrest professor after his fierce criticism of hardline regime 

Iran has offered to transfer Indian wheat to Afghanistan. The proposal was made by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian during his telephonic conversation with India's Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar.

Iran offers to transfer Indian wheat to Afghanistan

In a latest video posted on social media, armed Taliban men are seen forcefully pushing three handcuffed men in car trunks.

Video posted on social media exposes Taliban's oppression

After sparring over Durand line Pakistan and Afghanistan have another issue of contention. Drugs in a latest crackdown Pakistan's customs intercepted two hundred and twenty five kilograms of heroin which were hidden in vehicles from Afghanistan at the tor--kham border.

Pakistan's customs intercepts two hundred and twenty five kilograms of heroin

After sparring over the Durand line, Pakistan and Afghanistan have another issue of contention drugs. In the latest crackdown, Pakistan's customs intercepted 225 kilograms of heroin which were hidden in vehicles from Afghanistan at the border.

Pakistan officials destroy 22 tonnes of drugs

Taliban issue posters ordering women to cover up: 'Encouragement for Muslim women to follow Sharia law'

Amid escalating tensions on the Durand Line over border fencing, Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf will be visiting Kabul later this month in a bid to ease the simmering tensions between the two nations over the contentious issue.

Pakistan’s NSA to visit Kabul amid simmering tensions on Durand Line over border fencing

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