Ruchi Kumar

A judge and a pro­fes­sor say they de­cid­ed to stay back – de­spite threats and ad­verse con­di­tions – to help oth­er Afghans.

While new regime has not di­rect­ly fired fe­male gov­ern­ment em­ploy­ees, it has re­strict­ed women from en­ter­ing work­places.

For­mer of­fi­cials es­caped to lux­u­ry homes in Dubai and the US while mil­lions of Afghans live in mis­ery.

Sanc­tions and the chal­leng­ing ter­rain of af­fect­ed ar­eas make it hard to pro­vide rapid in­ter­na­tion­al aid to sur­vivors.

Per­se­cu­tion and con­flict has forced many Afghan Hin­dus and Sikhs to flee the coun­try, se­ri­ous­ly re­duc­ing their num­bers.

Nabi Roshan, whose show used to be watched by mil­lions, now lives as a refugee in Al­ba­nia.

Tal­iban de­cree or­der­ing fe­male news an­chors to cov­er their faces on air is the lat­est in a se­ries of re­stric­tions.

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.