The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity ...

five months before the Taliban seized power amid the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops. The station’s content is produced entirely by Afghan women. Its sister satellite channel ...

psychology and spiritual programmes tailored for women across parts of Afghanistan before its shutdown on Tuesday. According to the Taliban’s claims, Radio Begum was violating broadcasting ...

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities raided well-known ... Radio Begum was founded on March 8, International Women's Day, 2021, five months before the Taliban swept to power, ousting the US-backed ...

Even before the Taliban returned ... “There weren’t a lot of women in Afghanistan guiding tours, and it was a very challenging job for women to be doing because there are people who still ...

Even before the Taliban, women’s sports were opposed by many in Afghanistan’s deeply conservative society, seen as a violation of women’s modesty and of their role in society. Still ...

The Afghanistan Women's XI played their first match after an evacuation likened to "a Jason Bourne movie", led by three women on the other side of the world.

from the Afghan Taliban. Pakistan’s anger at its vexatious ally is well founded. Violence is up: in 2024 there were 521 terrorist attacks in Pakistan, a 70% increase on the year before ...

By Zia ur-Rehman Reporting from Karachi, Pakistan Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees who have ... funded by Western countries, before the Taliban took power in August 2021.

When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban ... forced to return face retribution from the Taliban – especially ethnic and religious minorities, women and girls, journalists, human rights activists ...