#Afghan

Pakistan has urged Afghanistan’s Taliban government to take verifiable action against militants it says operate from Afghan territory, rejecting Kabul’s accusation that Islamabad was shifting blame for its own security failures.

Letter: John Griffiths says in the 1960s he witnessed women discussing politics with men in Afghanistan’s parliament

For female students, the move would spell the end of their careers and prospects under Taliban rule

Florence Pouya is studying aerospace engineering at MIT, and is currently on a summer internship with NASA. As an adolescent, Pouya was a member of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team (the “Afghan Dreamers”), which became famous worldwide when they…

A truck carrying Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan has overturned on a highway in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 22 people and injuring about 36.

Truck was carrying Afghan families returning Pakistan when it overturned, official says

Two queer Afghan men navigate empire, desire, and the fault lines of shared identity in Bobuq Sayed’s "No God but Us."

From Dev.to - opensource: How to Convert Afghan Shamsi Dates to Gregorian (And Every Other Calendar) — Instantly

Pakistan has summoned a senior Afghan diplomat to protest a suicide attack in its northwest that killed 15 police officers

Pakistan has summoned a senior Afghan diplomat to protest a suicide attack in its northwest that killed 15 police officers.

Fifa has amended its rules so that a scattered team of exiled players can still compete internationally under the flag of the Afghan republic. But as they celebrate this moment, the home nation they represent remains out of reach.…

Zahra, the daughter of an Afghan army officer who served US officials before the government collapsed in August 2021, says she and other residents of Camp As Sayliyah (CAS) in Qatar only want a ‘a chance for a brighter future’. Arpan Rai reports

Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of launching cross-border attacks into its territory, hitting civilian areas and leaving at least three people dead and 14 wounded.

From Independent RSS Feed: UK condemned for ‘abandoning’ 9,000 Afghan allies to Taliban

Colonel Simon Diggins, who served as a defence attache in Afghanistan, said the UK has a ‘moral responsibility’ to help those it promised to evacuate because the Taliban ‘is still coming after them’

The Afghan women’s national football team last played a competitive match in 2018. When the Taliban wrested back control of the country in 2021, one of the first things it did was bring women's sport to a halt.

Afghan Women United can now represent Afghanistan at international football competitions, including the LA Olympics.

Fifa has passed a regulation change allowing the team of female Afghan refugees to represent the country officially

Rule change allowing female footballers to compete in Fifa tournaments follows creation of Afghan Women United team for players living outside country

Pakistan officials dismiss Afghan media reports and official statements about strikes on university in Kunar province as ‘blatant lie’