The Taliban has dismissed hundreds of female professors from public universities across Afghanistan, in a move that also affected some male staff but primarily targeted women.
The move has sent shockwaves through the academic community.
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We have a moral duty to speak out against the genocide in Gaza. Silence is complicity.
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If we don’t have women journalists on the ground, we won’t be able to tell the story of Afghanistan.

Zan Times spoke to three women who said they had been flogged by Taliban over the past two years for alleged moral crimes, which they had been forced to confess.
This report has been published in partnership with the Guardian.
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To accept that the Taliban mullahcracy is the inevitable fate of the people of Afghanistan is to deny their humanity and their capacity and right to determine their situation.
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For the past half-century, Pakistan has used Kabul’s opposition groups to challenge and even facilitate the collapse of the Afghan state.
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Talibanism is the most retrograde political movement in the history of our region. Its core aim is to establish a system of tyranny that disenfranchises people. It truly is a “social cancer,” and should be treated as such.
First published on May 10, 2024.
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The world must take a clear stance against Israel’s genocide to prevent the further entrenchment of ethnic cleansing and apartheid.
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It was about seven months ago that this 28-year-old journalist had left her family behind in Afghanistan to start a new life in Tehran. She quickly realized that living in Tehran was not easy.
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Nadia is university-educated. She used to be a math teacher. Nadia, was forced to stay home after the Taliban shut high schools for girls. She is a widow. Her husband, a soldier, was killed in battle against the Taliban. Nadia now has neither a husband nor a job.
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