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A Taliban fighter walks past a beauty saloon with images of women defaced using a spray paint in Shar-e-Naw in Kabul on August 18, 2021. (AFP)

Images of women vandalised as Kabul faces up to Taliban rule

Stores begin whitewashing its outdoor walls to cover up advertisements showing the faces of smiling women in bridal...

19 Aug 2021 11:49 AM IST

Incremental but meaningful gains in what is still a deeply conservative, male-dominated society: Girls are now in school, and women are in Parliament, government and business. (AFP)

Afghan women fear return to 'dark days' amid Taliban sweep

In just a few minutes, everything changed for the 26-year-old resident of Herat, Afghanistan's third-largest city

16 Aug 2021 3:42 AM IST

Waheedullah Hashimi (Twitter/@waheedullahyama)

Afghan women should not be allowed to work alongside men, senior...

Since the movement swept to power, Taliban officials have said women would be able to work and study within the limits...

14 Sept 2021 10:04 AM IST

Taliban soldiers stand guard in Panjshir province, northeastern of Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. (AP /Mohammad Asif Khan)

Report: Taliban has banned women's sports in Afghanistan

Australia's Sport Minister Richard Colbeck said earlier that the Taliban's decision on women's sport was 'deeply...

9 Sept 2021 1:30 PM IST

The Taliban said last week that schooling should resume but that males and females should be separated. (AFP file photo)

A curtain divides male, female students as Afghan universities reopen

What happens in universities and schools across the country is being closely watched by foreign powers

7 Sept 2021 10:45 AM IST

The anger of men remains more acceptable than that of women, especially women of colour. (Twitter)

Shreya Sen-Handley | Square up in Kabul, look forward in rage

Behind every successful pacific political movement, there's controlled, empowering anger

5 Sept 2021 2:41 AM IST

Cover page of The Problem with Everything: My Journey through the New Culture Wars. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | Welcome to the political compass' third dimension

Meghan Daum is crisp, elegant and wryly humorous, and does not dump her traumas on the reader.

28 Aug 2022 12:02 AM IST

Laura Bush (Photo: AP)

America is no saviour of women in Afghanistan

The aims of Promote were to improve the status of 75,000 Afghan women at all levels of society.

21 Sept 2018 12:17 AM IST

Women holding guns in Jawzjan province in northern Afghanistan. (Photo: Twitter)

In northern Afghanistan, bereaved women take up arms to fight ISIS

Nearly all of the women have lost a husband, son or brother to the Taliban or the newly active Islamic State in the...

15 Jan 2017 3:41 PM IST

#WhereIsMyName aims to challenge attitudes that allow men to make all decisions and leave women invisible and powerless. (Photo: AFP)

Afghan women campaign for their identity, challenge age-old tradition

The practice of erasing women's names is rooted in Afghan customs, rather than Islam, the dominant religion.

28 July 2017 2:41 PM IST

Afghan Army cadets march during a training programme at the Officers Training Academy in Chennai. (Photo: AFP)

Afghan women officers train at Chennai academy

Under Taliban's 1996-2001 regime, girls were banned from education.

14 Dec 2017 1:14 AM IST