The Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles and others for missing prayers at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan, a UN report said Thursday, six months after laws regulating people’s conduct came into effect. The Vice and Virtue Ministry published laws last August covering many aspects everyday […]
The Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles and others for missing prayers at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan, a UN report said Thursday, six months after laws regulating people’s conduct came into effect. The Vice and Virtue Ministry published laws last August covering many aspects everyday […]
File photo: Prince Harry (Picture credit: AP) Prince Harry returned to London’s Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday to appeal the UK government’s 2020 decision to downgrade his security detail after stepping down as a senior working royal.Describing the move as “unjustified” and dangerous, the Duke of Sussex argued he had been “singled out for […]
Russia’s Supreme Court to decide next month on removing the Taliban from its list of banned “terrorist” organisations, state news agencies reported Monday. The ruling, expected on April 17, follows a request from the prosecutor general’s office and is likely to lift the designation. Despite the Taliban’s classification as a terrorist group since 2003, Moscow […]
American Faye Dail Hall, center, is pictured with diplomat Mirdef Alqashouti, of the Qatar Embassy in Afghanistan after Dail was released Thursday. (Pic credit: AP) The Taliban has released an American citizen, Faye Hall, who was detained earlier this year alongside two British nationals and their Afghan interpreter, according to former US envoy to Kabul […]
In this undated handout photo released by the Qatar ministry of foreign affairs, American Faye Dail Hall, center, is pictured with diplomat Mirdef Alqashouti, of the Qatar Embassy in Afghanistan after Dail was released Thursday. (Pic credit: AP) An American woman recently released from Taliban custody in Afghanistan expressed gratitude to US President Donald Trump […]
New Delhi: Sushmita Banerjee was all of 25 when she met Jaambaz Khan, an Afghan moneylender, at a theatre rehearsal in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was 1986. Sushmita’s friend played Cupid. Sushmita and Jaambaz met once a week, for an hour, at Flury’s in the city. Over coffee and a pastry shared between the two […]
File Photo: Sirajuddin Haqqani (ANI) The United States has lifted its $10 million bounty onTaliban‘s Sirajuddin Haqqani, the interior minister in Afghanistan’s Taliban-led regime, officials in Kabul said on Sunday.The US government has also removed the bounties placed on two other senior Taliban figures, namely Abdul Aziz Haqqani and Yahya Haqqani, interior ministry spokesman Abdul […]
