News Afghanistan Nimruz: UN official meets Taliban deputy premier over women NGO ban
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A senior U.N. official in Afghanistan met on Sunday the deputy prime minister of the Taliban-led government to discuss a ban on women working for non-governmental groups that Afghan authorities have announced in a series of measures rolling back women's rights. The decision by the Taliban government to bar women from NGO work has prompted major international aid agencies to suspend operations in the country. The ban has...
News Afghanistan Nimruz: Bergdahl, Afghanistan and the ‘darkening of the American soul’
The ordeal of the son and the disciplined, contemplative activism of the father projects the U.S. war in Afghanistan through a different lens. We know little yet of what exactly led to Bowe Bergdahl’s ...
News Afghanistan Nimruz: Taliban bans drug cultivation, including lucrative opium
KABUL/PESHAWAR, April 3 (Reuters) - The Taliban announced on Sunday a ban on the cultivation of narcotics in Afghanistan ... A farmer in Helmand who spoke on condition of anonymity said that ...
News Afghanistan Nimruz: Taliban clamps down on drugs, announces ban on poppy harvest
The harvest and planting seasons vary across Afghanistan. In the Taliban heartland of southern Kandahar the harvesting ... is seeking to assure financial institutions and other businesses that ...
News Afghanistan Nimruz: We should not forget the dangers hiding under Afghan soil
As the world is rightfully looking at Ukraine, we must not forget Afghanistan. The current humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is to some extent the result of the international sanctions introduced ...
News Afghanistan Nimruz: The Fourth Wave of Covid-19 Hits Afghanistan: “According to Sharia keeping yourself healthy is a must”
Another wave of Covid-19 struck Afghanistan early in 2022 with doctors throughout the country reporting a rise in cases from January onwards. The devastation suffered by the Afghan health system since ...
News Afghanistan Nimruz: ‘No future here’: More than 1M Afghans flee as the economy collapses
ZARANJ, Afghanistan >> From their hideout in the desert ravine, the migrants could just make out the white lights of the Iranian border glaring over the horizon. The air was cold and their breath ...
News Afghanistan Nimruz: ‘We’ve Never Been Smuggled Before’
the capital of Nimruz Province in southwestern Afghanistan, near the border with Iran. It was two and a half months after the Afghan capital, Kabul, had fallen to the Taliban and a new wave of ...
News Afghanistan Nimruz: Over a Million Flee as Afghanistan’s Economy Collapses
Unless Western donors move more quickly to revive the financial system ... Many fled through Nimruz, a remote corner of southwest Afghanistan wedged between the borders of Iran and Pakistan ...
News Afghanistan Nimruz: ‘We are happy to fight you’: tensions rise on Afghan-Pakistani border
A similar incident was recorded last year on 30 December in Nimruz, a province in south-west Afghanistan. The Taliban’s defence ... crisis – a more porous border benefits their financial interests. A ...
