Topic: The Taliban
The Afghan government on Saturday denied making a deal with the Taliban agreeing a more conservative curriculum and more mullahs as teachers in return for an end to attacks on schools.Responding to a report released by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN), the ...
A bomb attack on a girls' school in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday killed a policeman, wounded eight others and destroyed a wall, police said.The remote-controlled bomb was planted at the outer wall of the government-run middle school in the outskirts of Mardan ...
Fears of a withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan in 2014 are harming efforts to transfer security to locals, the head of the EU police training force EUPOL said on Wednesday."If you talk to a normal Afghan person, even an educated one, ...
Reading is the most important lesson for Afghan police and soldiers as NATO builds forcesWhen NATO troops train Afghan police, their most intensive class is not marksmanship, checkpoint procedure or riot control. It's reading and writing.Only 11 percent of enlisted personnel and ...
This is the tradition in Afghanistan, a patriarcal society where men and women are not considered equal. And in most cases, women were denied of their basic and fundamental rights.Root of Inequality When the Talibans assumed power in Afghanistan in 1996, they ...
Dozens of Afghan schoolgirls sickened by unknown gas, most discharged from hospitalDozens of students and teachers at a girls' school in Afghanistan's capital Kabul were sickened Wednesday by an unknown gas that spread through classrooms, education officials said.The incident was similar to ...
In each village in the impoverished, barren district of Chakwal, officials say there is the grave of at least one soldier killed in Pakistan's wars.Decades of sending sons to the military provided employment and helped boost literacy rates in Chakwal, but at ...
The United Nations said Wednesday it was investigating the cause of an apparent illness among Afghan schoolgirls as the president ordered steps to combat what he said could be poisoned gas attacks.In recent weeks girls at schools mainly in northern Afghanistan have ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Twenty-two Kabul schoolgirls and three teachers fell suddenly ill and were hospitalized on Tuesday in what Afghan authorities described as the fourth suspected poison gas attack on a girls' school in weeks.The incident was the first in the comparatively ...
On the wall of Le Pelican cafe in Kabul's dusty suburbs are photographs showing a baker's dozen of Afghan children beaming over a tray of pastries fresh out of the huge industrial oven behind them.Nearby shelves are stacked with their wares -- ...
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Taliban: Behind The Masks
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