Ruchi Kumar

In their lat­est de­cree, the Tal­iban say it is ‘re­quired for all re­spectable Afghan women to wear a hi­jab’.

Afghans strug­gle to put food on the ta­ble as the hu­man­i­tar­i­an sit­u­a­tion con­tin­ues to re­main grim.

Peo­ple in Khost say those killed in air raids were civil­ians as Pak­istan yet to con­firm if it was be­hind dead­ly at­tacks.

The group is reim­pos­ing dra­con­ian re­stric­tions, es­pe­cial­ly against women, that are rem­i­nis­cent of their past regime.

Dire eco­nom­ic sit­u­a­tion sees chil­dren dy­ing of star­va­tion as mil­lions of Afghans strug­gle to put food on their ta­bles.

Lawyer for Sid­diqui fam­i­ly says there is suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence In­di­an jour­nal­ist was tor­tured, mur­dered in Tal­iban at­tack.

The new restau­rant run by two women of­fers Afghan cui­sine at­tract­ing refugees as well as the lo­cal pop­u­la­tion.

The Afghan IT sec­tor, one of the few suc­cess sto­ries from the war-rav­aged na­tion, now threat­ened by con­tin­ued con­flict.

HALO Trust, whose 10 dem­i­ning work­ers were killed last week, says will stay in the coun­try af­ter for­eign troops leave.

With the US with­draw­al un­der way, In­dia has to find its place in the post-peace geopol­i­tics of the re­gion.