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26Jul

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From war zone to dance floor! Afghan B-girl competes at Paris Olympics after fleeing Taliban | Paris Olympics 2024 News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Manizha Talash, a 21-year-old Afghan break-dancer, embodies the spirit of human resilience that the Olympics celebrate. In 2021, she fled Afghanistan after the Taliban's takeover, crossing the border into Pakistan before finding refuge in Spain the following year.Despite the challenges she faced, Talash never gave up on her passion for break-dancing, which she discovered as a teenager in Kabul while scrolling through social media.Little did she know that this hobby, pursued in her troubled homeland, would lead her to the world's biggest sporting event.Talash's life took a remarkable turn when the International Olympics Committee (IOC) included her in its refugee squad for the Paris Games.She recalls the days when she trained with boys in a discreet break-dancing club in Kabul...

17Jul

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Pakistan summons Talibani envoy after attack on military base – Times of India

Pakistani foreign ministry summoned Taliban's deputy head of mission on Wednesday, requesting their government to address the issue of Afghanistan-based militant groups that Pakistan alleges that they were responsible for an attack on a military base earlier this week.The militant attack, which occurred on Monday in Bannu, a city in northwestern Pakistan, resulted in the deaths of eight Pakistani security force members.(With inputs from agencies) var _mfq = window._mfq || []; _mfq.push(["setVariable", "toi_titan", window.location.href]); !(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) { if (!isFBCampaignActive) { return; } (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { if (f.fbq) return; n = f.fbq = function() { n.ca...

2Jul

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At UN meeting, Taliban asked to include women into public life – Times of India

UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo on Tuesday defended the decision to exclude civil society groups, including women's rights activists, from the two-day meeting on Afghanistan in Doha. She stated that the Taliban authorities were informed that women must be included in public life, despite their refusal to sit across the table with Afghan civil society in this format.The UN-hosted meeting, which began on Sunday, is the third such gathering to be held in Qatar in just over a year, but the first to include the Taliban authorities who regained power in Afghanistan in 2021. The talks were intended to discuss increasing engagement with Afghanistan and a more coordinated response to the country, including economic issues and counter-narcotics efforts. However, the international comm...

Taliban attends UN meeting for the first time in Doha, meets top Indian govt official

1Jul

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Taliban attends UN meeting for the first time in Doha, meets top Indian govt official

New Delhi: The Taliban is for the first time participating in a United Nations (UN)-led meeting in Qatar’s Doha that started Sunday, sparking an outcry from women’s rights activists across the world.Interestingly, an Indian delegation led by senior diplomat J.P. Singh, who heads the Ministry of External Affairs’ (MEA’s) Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran (PAI) Division, met Taliban representatives ahead of the meeting. There was an “exchange of views on the development of relations between the two countries”, during which India supported the Taliban’s position in the Doha meeting and in turn, thanks were given for India’s assistance to Afghanistan, according to a statement issued by the Taliban government spokesperson. Show Full Article The war-torn country’s ...

16Jun

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Afghan Taliban govt says to attend third round of UN-hosted Doha talks – Times of India

KABUL: Taliban authorities will attend the third round of United Nations-hosted talks on Afghanistan in the Qatari capital, a government spokesman told AFP on Sunday, after snubbing an invitation to the previous round."A delegation of the Islamic Emirate will participate in the coming Doha conference. They will represent Afghanistan there and express Afghanistan's position," Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said of the talks, which are scheduled to start June 30.The participation of the Taliban authorities in the two-day conference of special envoys on Afghanistan had been in doubt after they were not included in the first round and then refused an invitation to the second round in February. Mujahid told local media on Sunday the decision had been made to send a delegatio...

16Jun

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Amnesty International urges Taliban to reopen secondary schools for girls – Times of India

KABUL: Amnesty International has urged the Taliban to reopen secondary schools for girls. It said that Afghan girls have lost their right to education due to the Taliban's "discriminatory and unjust policies," Afghanistan-based Khaama Press reported.Amnesty International stressed that the Taliban's policies violate international laws. A month after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the group reopened schools that were shut due to the COVID-19 pandemic.However, they banned the girls from pursuing studies in schools above sixth class.In a post on X, Amnesty International on June 14 stated, "For 1000 days, Afghan girls have been deprived of their right to education, locked out of their schools due to the discriminatory and unjust Taliban policies violating international law. The Tal...

6Jun

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‘Need To Deal With Reality’: Russian Prez Putin Calls For Moscow To ‘Build Up’ Ties With Taliba

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called for Moscow to "build up" relations with the Taliban government. This comes as a Taliban delegation visits Russia on Wednesday. He said that the Taliban government is in power in Afghanistan, and there is a need to deal with reality. Speaking at a meeting with foreign news outlets, the Russian President said, "We have always believed that we need to deal with reality. The Taliban are in power in Afghanistan... We have to build up relations with the Taliban government," as quoted by news agency AFP. Putin’s remarks came on the sidelines of the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum on Wednesday. Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow planned to take the Taliban off its...