Category: AFGHANISTAN
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Pakistan disturbs tribal people near the Afghanistan border using a variety of methods.
According to the Afghan Diaspora Network, Pakistan’s goal of upsetting the tribal people in the border areas with Afghanistan includes various facets. In addition to often shooting over the border, violating Afghan airspace with drones, enforcing an economic embargo, and contesting Afghanistan’s sovereignty by giving National Identity Card (NIC) cards to Afghans in border regions…
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UN expert: Taliban’s treatment of women and girls may constitute “gender apartheid”
Given the severity with which the de facto government of the nation continues to abuse their rights, a UN expert said on Monday that the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women and girls may amount to gender apartheid. On the first day of the Council’s summer session, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,…