Quick Glance: UN tells Afghan staff to stay at home following Taliban ban on female workers
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- Women's discrimination in Afghanistan, according to Sajjan, is a form of "gender apartheid."
- The UN mission in Afghanistan has launched an operations review and has asked all Afghan staff not to come to work until at least May after the Taliban administration barred its female staff from working, according to a statement issued on Tuesday.
- The Taliban has not responded to the order.
- Some officials have expressed concern that donors may withdraw support for Afghanistan's largest humanitarian aid program, and that implementing some programs and reaching women in the conservative country would be impossible without female workers.
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Quick Glance: Pakistan's Supreme Court Orders Release of Former PM Imran Khan After His Arrest Sparks Violence
- Former Prime Minister Imran Khan is ordered to be released by Pakistan's Supreme Court after his arrest led to violent clashes between protesters and police
- Over 2,000 of Khan's supporters were arrested in government crackdowns following his arrest
- Khan, who was previously removed from office due to a no-confidence vote, faces multiple corruption charges in Pakistani courts
- New terrorism charges were filed against Khan and his party leaders for allegedly inciting violence
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Quick Glance: US drone strike kills Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
- President Joe Biden announced Monday that a US drone strike killed Al Qaeda commander Ayman al-Zawahiri in an Afghan capital bunker, adding that "justice had been delivered" to the relatives of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- Biden said in a solemn televised message that he gave the final approval for the high-precision assault that successfully struck Zawahiri in Afghanistan's capital over the weekend.
- "What we know is that the senior Haqqani Taliban were aware of his presence in Kabul," the Biden official added.
- Some militants questioned the legitimacy of the story that he had been slain, while others believed Zawahiri had attained his desire for "martyrdom."
Quick Glance: From schoolgirl to ex-journalist to government official: a year after Western forces departed, here is how people live under the Tabliban dictatorship.
- On August 16, 2021, US soldiers defend a barricade at Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan.
- The date of August 15, 2021, is significant not only because it marks the end of Western military involvement in Afghanistan and the fall of Ashraf Ghani's government (editor's note.
- Today, he has no employment in construction: "With the Taliban's rule, not only work, but also life has ceased," he stated.
- I chatted with Shaima (name changed), a girl who was in tenth grade at a Kabul school before the Taliban invaded.
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+Humanitarian crisis spirals out of control
+Malnutrition ... Show more
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