In the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, earlier this month, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders to challenge the Taliban on women and girls' education. She was speaking at a conference hosted by the Organization of Islamic ...

“The ban on girls’ education must be lifted without delay, as it has no foundation in Islam and is wholly unjustified in Afghan values,” Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the Afghan government’s deputy foreign minister for political affairs, said in a speech at an Islamic seminary in Khost, southeastern Afghanistan.

As reported by Arshad Mehmood, Stanikzai’s bold appeal is the first public challenge from a senior Taliban leader against the policy, which has faced widespread condemnation both domestically and internationally.

The United States pulled out their remaining troops from Afghanistan in 2020 after years occupying the country, cementing the country to Taliban rule. The new ruling government has instituted a

Sher Abbas Stanikzai urges the Taliban to reconsider its ban on girls' education, citing no religious basis for it.

Amelia Earhart, renowned as the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, fearlessly confronted her apprehensions about failure and the unknown, becoming a beacon of inspiration for generations of women.

Islamabad remained buzzed with the closing ceremony of International Conference on Girls' Education in Muslim Communities. Except Afghanistan, representatives of Muslim countries attended the conference,

In the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, earlier this month, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders to challenge the Taliban on women and girls’ education. She was speaking at a conference hosted by the Organization of Islamic ...

Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Chief Mullah Fazlullah has been ... as Mullah Fazlullah was involved in heinous crimes in Pakistan including attack on Malala Yousafzai and Army Public School. His hands were stained with the blood of innocents.

Afghanistan was tipped to the brink of economic crisis in 2021 as the Taliban took over and all development and security assistance to the country was frozen, with restrictions also placed on the banking sector. Since then humanitarian aid – aimed at ...

Huda Ahmed was 13 when Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, becoming the youngest Nobel laureate at the time. It was also when Yousafzai became a personal hero for Huda. So ...

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