Report in TOLOnews Online, Dec 26, 2023 at 10:03 PMThe acting minister of Interior, Sirajuddin Haqqani, in a meeting with Tadamichi Yamamoto, the former head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), and the president of Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Atsushi Sunami, said that restrictions imposed by foreigners are causing the tragedy of humanitarian needs. According to the statement, Sirajuddin Haqqani said: “The visit of experts from Sasakawa Peace Foundation was positive and we hope…
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report in The Express Tribune, Nov 22, 2023PESHAWAR: Trade was halted Tuesday at border crossings between Pakistan and Afghanistan after Islamabad imposed stricter immigration rules on commercial vehicle drivers and crew, officials said. The Pakistan government has launched a massive operation against undocumented Afghans living in the country, alongside a crackdown on cross-border smuggling. Nearly 350,000 Afghans — many born in refugee camps in Pakistan — have returned voluntarily or been deported since the order…
By Sheain Fernandopulle in Daily Mirror, Nov 8, 2023COLOMBO- While saying that people must take to the streets against the mismanagement of the economy, TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran said people should be ready to rally together even in defiance of existing legal restrictions. The MP asserted that it is imperative for individuals to express their discontent through demonstrations. “It’s high time for people to demonstrate their agitation more than ever, as this government has brought…
By Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai in TOLOnews, June 21,2023 at 10:08 PMThe UN special envoy for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, said that the “April 5 restrictions against the Afghan women working for the United Nations place a question mark over our activities across the country. We have been given no explanation by the de facto authorities for this ban and assurances that it will be lifted.” Speaking at UN Security Council’s Meeting on the situation in…
By Imran Danish in TOLOnews Online, March 20,2023 at 10:01 PMWomen in Afghanistan have faced various types of restrictions including a ban on females working in NGOs and female students attending school grades 7-12 and universities. The Ministry of Economy in a letter announced that the work of all female employes at NGOs was suspended until further notice. The decision faced strong reactions from the international community. However, the interim government’s officials said that the…
by Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press online, Jan 9, 2023Following the imposition of harsh restrictions on women, the international aid organizations say their operations without the presence of female employees have been paralyzed in Afghanistan. Gen Egeland, the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) earlier today Tweeted that Norway’s primer aid organization can’t continue its operations in Afghanistan without its female employees. Mr. Egeland recently traveled to Afghanistan and visited the NRC offices,…
THE Afghan Taliban’s assault on women’s freedoms continues, as the hard-line movement that rules Afghanistan has recently announced that female students will not be able to attend classes at public and private universities. Ever since they took Kabul last year, the movement has increasingly cracked down on women’s freedoms, despite hopes that ‘Taliban 2.0’ would have shed the rigid outlook of their earlier avatar. This has clearly not been the case, as shocked female university…