The eight-year-old’s fame has grown from videos on social media of her odd pairing of talents - poetry and skateboarding, neither of which have come to her easily.
Read moreThe shutdown by the department’s Media Violation Commission is only temporary, Bakhtar reported. Ostensibly until the problems are corrected.
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The eight-year-old’s fame has grown from videos on social media of her odd pairing of talents - poetry and skateboarding, neither of which have come to her easily.
Read moreA study on the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan and how foreign entities are involved has been released by a Texas-based think tank, George W. Bush Institute.
It’s also a day when many Afghan women and girls will, I’m sure, be having feelings of betrayal about the way that they’ve been treated and are being treated by the international community.
These days, I’m afraid to leave the house. Ever since the Taliban detentions of girls and women began, the crowds in the streets evoke in me a sense of threat.
A shocking fact was admitted in a recent report from the UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) on the human rights situation in the country. It notes that the Taliban’s mass detention of Afghan girls and women has ethnic undertones.
The eight-year-old’s fame has grown from videos on social media of her odd pairing of talents - poetry and skateboarding, neither of which have come to her easily.
Zahra* is the kind of woman the Taliban had hoped to eradicate. Despite Taliban decrees cutting her off from any formal education and most opportunities for work or socialising, Zahra is still pursuing her studies and her dreams of being a doctor.
