Top 10 world news: Taliban allows women to study, cracks in Pakistan-Taliban relations, ISI chief hosts other countries and more
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The Taliban government’s new higher education minister Abdul Baqi Haqqani has said that women in Afghanistan are allowed to study in universities, but won't be sharing classrooms withmen, while also declaring dress code for women saying that hijabs would be made mandatory. In other news,Pakistan's ISIchief General Faiz Hameed hosted his counterparts from China, Russia and other central Asian countries in Islamabad to discuss the Afghanistansituation. Also, an audio clip is doing the roundsreportedlymentioningMullah Fazel, Taliban's deputy defence minister, referring toISI chiefHameedrecent visit to Afghanistan as "guest (ISI chief) ruined Afghanistan's entire future and another war is expecting".
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