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A Taliban government minister says Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women

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A striking collection of shows include 60s shop workers turned into icons of glamour, awestruck visions of nature and scenes of female oppression in Afghanistan

Prohibition comes two months after the Taliban banned women’s voices in public spaces

Afghanistan's morality ministry is gradually introducing a ban on images of living beings in media, with multiple provinces announcing restrictions and some Taliban officials refusing to be photographed or filmed, journalists across the country told AFP. Since mid-October the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice…

As a former senator, I’ve seen how major parties conspired with the military to manipulate elections and crush opponents. This can’t go on, says Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar

Islamist militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the attack

Extreme restrictions on media workers mean life in Afghanistan – including human rights abuses – will go undocumented, journalists say

Taliban officials in Afghanistan's south have banned all media from showing images of living things to comply with the Taliban's morality laws

The Taliban, an ultraconservative Islamic political group, retook control of Kabul a little more than three years ago, dashing many Afghans’ hopes for a tolerant, democratic government.

Officials say Pakistan has witnessed a surge in new polio cases ahead of a new nationwide campaign, hampering years-long efforts aimed at making the country a polio-free state