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Afghanistan's Massoud urges elections to create legitimate government

Only elections can lead Afghanistan out of political crisis, even if they legitimise Taliban rule, Afghan anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Massoud told a conference in Tajikistan on Wednesday.

Reuters

An Afghan soldier fleeing the Taliban spent months reaching the U.S. to request asylum. He was arrested at the Texas border.

Abdul Wasi Safi was trying to reach his brother, who immigrated legally to Houston after helping the U.S. military. Legal experts say Wasi may have to serve a criminal sentence before he can pursue asylum.

The Texas Tribune

3 dead as bomber hits Pakistan police protecting polio teams

Officials say a suicide bomber has killed three people and wounded nearly two dozen others in an attack on a truck carrying police officers tasked with protecting polio workers near Quetta

The Independent UK

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‘Destitution is almost inevitable’: Afghan refugees in Greece left homeless by failed system

Catch-22 system leaves people facing eviction upon being granted refugee status – yet unable to claim rent subsidies without accommodation

The Guardian - UK

Pakistan FM travels to Kabul, meets Taliban amid border tensions

Hina Rabbani Khar holds talks with her Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi a day after Pakistan Taliban ended truce.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan foreign minister meets Afghan Taliban amid border concerns

Pakistan's minister of state for foreign affairs met Afghanistan's acting foreign minister in Kabul on Tuesday, the latest international minister to visit the country whose Taliban rulers are not formally recognised by foreign governments.

Reuters

Pakistan's new army chief takes charge of military

Pakistan’s new military chief has taken command of the country's armed forces

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Taliban militants in Pakistan end ceasefire with government - spokesman

Taliban militants in Pakistan will no longer abide by a months-long ceasefire with the Pakistani government, a spokesman for the militant group said on Monday.

Reuters

Pakistan Taliban ends ceasefire with gov’t, threatens new attacks

The armed group calls off a truce that started in June and orders fighters to ‘carry out attacks in the entire country’.

Al Jazeera

UN Experts Call For Investigation Into Suppression Of Women's Rights In Afghanistan

UN experts have demanded an investigation into the suppression of women's rights in Afghanistan as a form of gender persecution as the situation of women in Afghanistan. Read on for details:

Dynamite News

Commentary: The world should pressure the Taliban to allow girls a proper education

The student is a woman majoring in computer science at a private university in Afghanistan, but since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan last year, the main thing that she seems to be studying is the regime’s manipulation of Islam.

Chicago Tribune

For Afghans who fought against the Taliban, life is fraught under their rule

Those who put their lives on the line in the Afghan National Army and can't find a way out of Afghanistan are working menial jobs, sometimes moving locations every few days in fear for their safety.

WEKU

Afghan women, undeterred by Taliban, secretly network for change

Female activists are secretly building support networks for marginalised women in Taliban-governed Afghanistan.

Al Jazeera

‘Leaders have gone silent’: Malala calls for UK to help oppressed Afghan women

The 25-year-old Pakistani activist accused world leaders of going “silent” as she addressed the Action for Afghanistan rally on Sunday.

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Wales Online

Brit is touring the 'most dangerous' countries in the world including Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq

Ben Frier purposely goes to 'places people don't want to go'

Evening Standard

London protesters to call for legal asylum route for Afghan women

Protesters will march from Park Lane to Westminster on Sunday

Radio France Internationale

As Afghans flee, Turkey is accused of deporting them without a fair hearing

As elections approach and politicians play to fears over the number of refugees in Turkey, a new report by Human Rights Watch accuses Turkish authorities of indiscriminately deporting Afghans regardless of the dangers awaiting them in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

The Guardian - UK

London marchers to call for safe asylum route for Afghan women

Thousands expected to demonstrate on Sunday to urge UK government to help those fleeing Taliban

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Taliban's treatment of women may be crime against humanity: UN experts

The Taliban's treatment of Afghan women and girls, including their exclusion from parks and gyms as well as schools and universities, may amount to a crime against humanity, a group of U.N. experts said on Friday.

The Independent UK

UN experts denounce Taliban treatment of women as crime

A U.N. team of experts says the Taliban treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan may amount to a crime against humanity and should be investigated and prosecuted under international law

The Conversation

Afghanistan: after a year of Taliban government, women are more oppressed than ever

The recent announcement that women and girls in Afghanistan have been banned by the Taliban government from visiting parks and gyms – even if accompanied by a male “chaperone” – has understandably been greeted with outrage.

WEKU

Afghans are bracing for a winter many fear will be even worse than the last

At World Food Programme distribution sites, "Everybody tells us, 'Last winter was difficult, but we have no idea how we will get through the coming winter,'" says a WFP spokesperson in Kabul.

The Independent UK

About 4,000 Afghan children still living in hotels in UK after Taliban takeover

The Home Office published updated figures on Thursday.

Daily Mirror

Desperate parents sedating crying children and selling own organs in Afghanistan

Reporting just outside Herat, Afghanistan, the BBC found families giving their children Xanax to stop them crying and to help them sleep at night while others confessed to selling their kidneys

The Independent UK

Mine company's blasting of rock shelters likened to Taliban

An Australian minister has likened a mining company blasting ancient rock shelters to the Taliban’s destruction of giant Buddha carvings and vowed to improve protections of Indigenous cultural heritage

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