The Taliban have signalled their intention to deny girls’ education past the age of 12, to ban women from employment and reinstate the law requiring women to be accompanied …
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Taliban ‘Has Not Changed,’ Say Women Facing Subjugation in Areas of Afghanistan Under it Extremist Rule
Burqas and male chaperones for women were features of the Taliban’s extremist rule of Afghanistan in the 1990s. Those policies are now back in some districts controlled by these …
The Taliban: What Could Its Return to Power Mean for Afghanistan?
During the peak of the Taliban rule in 1999, not a single girl was enrolled in a secondary school and merely 4% of those eligible were at primary schools. …
Dear Sadhguru, This is What ‘Talibani’ Actually Means
Jaggi Vasudev may be a Ducati-riding yogi, a social entrepreneur, a problematic mystic and a pop-philosopher – but he is certainly not literate in Arabic.