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, political deputy at the Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a speech on Saturday in southeastern Khost province.
He told an audience at a religious school ceremony there was no reason to deny education to women and girls, “just as there was no justification for it in the past and there shouldn’t be one at all.”
The government has barred females from education after sixth grade. Last September, there were reports authorities had also stopped medical training and courses for women.
Israel unleashed airstrikes across Iran for a third day Sunday and threatened even greater force as...
On the frozen frontline in the east of Zaporizhzhia, a Ukrainian soldier surveyed the fallout from...
At least 15 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire as they gathered near an aid...
This week's G7 summit in Canada will be dominated by war - only not one of...
