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Infantino says ‘important step’ taken for Afghan women’s football

FIFA President Gianni Infantino hails first talent camp staged for Afghanistan women’s refugee football team.

Al Jazeera

The Guardian view on the other Afghan scandal: countries are forcing refugees back to Taliban rule

Editorial: The British government’s secret scheme to bring those at risk to the UK has dominated headlines, but, worldwide, many times more are losing protection

The Guardian - UK

Thousands Of Afghans Scramble For Chance To Work In Qatar

When Mohammad Hanif heard Qatar was opening jobs to Afghans, he joined thousands of others to put his name down for a shot to make a living in the gas-rich emirate, his own country wracked by unemployment.

International Business Times

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The Muslim world has been strong on rhetoric, short on action over Gaza and Afghanistan

When it comes to dealing with two of the biggest current crises in the Muslim world – the devastation of Gaza and the Taliban’s draconian rule in Afghanistan – Arab and Muslim states have been staggeringly ineffective.

The Conversation

The Taliban criticize neighboring countries for their mass expulsion of Afghans

A Taliban deputy minister is criticizing other countries for a mass expulsion of Afghans

The Independent UK

Afghanistan’s pioneering female tour guides are opening up the country for tourists

Girls are banned from education above primary school level, and women live under myriad restrictions

The Independent UK

‘This truck is our home!’ How Bobby Bolton found love and purpose on a 42,000-mile road trip

No money, no flat, no fiancee: in 2022 Bolton lost almost everything that underpinned his life. Three years and 53 countries later, he has more than rebuilt it

The Guardian - UK

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Afghans Show Solidarity As Migrant Returns From Iran Surge

At the border with Iran, Fatima Rezaei distributes food and hygiene products to Afghans forced to return, unable to passively stand by as the deportation crisis grows.

International Business Times

Hundreds of books removed from stores, libraries and universities in Afghanistan

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The Independent UK

The Taliban’s top environment official wants the UN to include Afghanistan in climate talks

The Taliban want to be included in U.N. climate talks

The Independent UK

From ‘Sapiens’ to ‘The Book of Mormon’: The banned books the Taliban deems ‘deviant’ and ‘un-Islamic’

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Hundreds of titles removed from shelves for being ‘against national interests’, reports Mukhtar Wafayee

The Independent UK

Taliban fighters 'have been brought to the UK on secret airlift flights' after Afghanistan data breach

Earlier this month, a database containing the details of 100,000 Afghans who had applied for sanctuary in the UK was mistakenly leaked

Evening Standard

Shackled, malnourished and suffering convulsions: son of UK couple imprisoned in Afghanistan warns situation ‘escalating’ and they could die

Barbie and Peter Reynolds, who were arrested by the Taliban in February, were kept underground for six weeks without daylight, their son says

The Guardian - UK

Afghans exposed in huge MoD data leak could get thousands in compensation

Some 18,700 Afghan applicants to UK resettlement scheme had their personal details leak in Ministry of Defence blunder

The Independent UK

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The Taliban are remaking Afghanistan in their image. It should have us all worried

COMMENT: As the Taliban turn drug rehabilitation centres into makeshift madrasas, Wajed Rohani cautions against the increasing radicalisation of Afghan institutions

Euronews

Taliban tortured and threatened Afghans expelled from Pakistan and Iran, UN says

Afghan authorities have urged nationals to return, pledging amnesty for anyone who left after the Taliban returned to power in 2021.

The Independent UK

Taliban tortured and threatened Afghans expelled from Pakistan and Iran, UN report says

A UN report says the Taliban have tortured and threatened Afghans forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan because of their identity or personal history

International Business Times

UN Says Taliban Committing 'Rights Violations' Against Afghan Returnees

The United Nations said Thursday that Taliban authorities were committing human rights violations, including torture and arbitrary detention, against Afghans forced to return by Iran and Pakistan.

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The Independent UK

Harsh conditions faced by British couple held by Taliban

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The Independent UK

UN agency calls for global pause on deportations back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

Exclusive: Afghans who worked for the previous Nato-backed administration face beatings, torture and mock executions in prison, while women and girls are being persecuted based on their gender alone

The Independent UK

With no access to education beyond the 6th grade, girls in Afghanistan turn to religious schools

For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners visiting loved ones’ graves

The Guardian - US

Afghan translator who worked for US military detained by Ice in Connecticut

‘Zia S’ translated for US troops in Afghanistan before fleeing Taliban takeover in 2021 and arriving stateside legally

The Independent UK

Taliban denies mistreatment of British couple in Afghan prison

Efforts to free the pair have ‘not yet been completed’, group says

Euronews

Taliban deny that British couple detained in Afghan prison are being mistreated

UN rights experts have demanded the release of Peter and Barbie Reynolds, warning that the couple are at risk of irreparable harm or even death.

The Independent UK

Son of British couple held by Taliban says parents were ‘chained to murderers’ in prison

Barbie Reynolds, 76, and her husband Peter, 80, were arrested by the Taliban on 1 February

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