Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law.

As reported by Arshad Mehmood, Stanikzai’s bold appeal is the first public challenge from a senior Taliban leader against the policy, which has faced widespread condemnation both domestically and internationally.

“The ban on girls’ education must be lifted without delay, as it has no foundation in Islam and is wholly unjustified in Afghan values,” Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the Afghan government’s deputy foreign minister for political affairs, said in a speech at an Islamic seminary in Khost, southeastern Afghanistan.

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor on Thursday said he was seeking arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders

Islamabad remained buzzed with the closing ceremony of International Conference on Girls' Education in Muslim Communities. Except Afghanistan, representatives of Muslim countries attended the conference,

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Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Chief Mullah Fazlullah has been ... as Mullah Fazlullah was involved in heinous crimes in Pakistan including attack on Malala Yousafzai and Army Public School. His hands were stained with the blood of innocents.

The United States pulled out their remaining troops from Afghanistan in 2020 after years occupying the country, cementing the country to Taliban rule. The new ruling government has instituted a

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants for Taliban officials for alleged gender-based crimes, as the group continues to crack down on women’s rights in Afghanistan.

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced Thursday that he is seeking arrest warrants for high-ranking Taliban leaders in Afghanistan accused of crimes against humanity ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, political deputy at the Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a speech on Saturday in southeastern Khost province.

The call by 30,000 people who have signed a petition in Britain to nominate the shot girl comes on the eve of this Saturday’s “Global Day of Action” for Yousufzai, marking one month since ...