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The resurgence of the Taliban in Pakistan
Under the Radar Islamabad blames Kabul for sheltering jihadi fighters terrorising Pakistan's borderlands
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The Week Unwrapped: Is population growth going into reverse?
Podcast Plus, will the Taliban stop women working as nurses? And are honey fans in a sticky spot?
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Has the Taliban banned women from speaking?
Today's Big Question 'Rambling' message about 'bizarre' restriction joins series of recent decrees that amount to silencing of Afghanistan's women
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Why has the Taliban banned pictures of living things?
Under The Radar 'Virtue' ministry says banned images are contrary to sharia law
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Taliban's quest for tourists to see the wonders of Afghanistan
Under The Radar Troubled country wants to become a 'tourism powerhouse' – but how safe is it?
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'The anti-abortion movement's religious worship of the union of egg and sperm'
Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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The Taliban's ongoing attack on women's rights
In depth The group has sparked humanitarian concerns
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'Relying on unelected justices to read rights into the Constitution is dangerous business'
Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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'An unbreakable plurality of the GOP explicitly wants fascism'
Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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Afghanistan has a growing female suicide problem
Speed Read The Taliban has steadily whittled away women's and girls' rights in Afghanistan over the past 2 years, prompting a surge in depression and suicide
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What daily life in Afghanistan looks like after two years under the Taliban
In Pictures The rights of women have been severely impeded as the war-torn nation’s ‘slide into poverty’ continues
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The Taliban’s ‘unprecedented’ crackdown on opium poppy crops in Afghanistan
feature Cultivation in former poppy-growing heartland Helmand has been slashed from 120,000 hectares to less than 1,000
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Officials believe dozens of girls in Afghanistan were deliberately poisoned at school
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Taliban kills mastermind of Kabul airport suicide bombing
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