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Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. Afghan women feel scared or unsafe leaving their home alone because of Taliban decrees and enforcement campaigns on clothing and male guardians, according to a report from the U.N. mission in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban decrees on clothing and male guardians leave Afghan women scared to go out alone

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Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 19, 2021. Human Rights Watch said Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, that Afghanistan’s public health system has been hit hard following a sharp reduction in foreign assistance, coupled with serious Taliban abuses against women and girls, jeopardizing the right to healthcare of millions of Afghans. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Foreign aid drops sharply as Taliban abuses jeopardize the Afghan health system, group says

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. A U.N. report says the Taliban are restricting Afghan women's access to work, travel and healthcare if they are unmarried or don't have a male guardian, a mahram. The Taliban have banned women from education, most jobs and public spaces like parks since seizing control of Afghanistan in 2021. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban enforcing restrictions on single and unaccompanied Afghan women, says U.N. report

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Taliban fighters patrol on the road during a celebration marking the second anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan, in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. More than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have taken place since the Taliban took over the country two years ago, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday, Aug. 22. The most targeted groups have been former army, police and intelligence forces, according to the report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq, file)

Taliban reports survivors among 6 people Russian private jet was carrying after crash in Afghanistan

By Rahim Faiez and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Afghan refugees settle in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border, in Torkham, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. The Taliban says Pakistan has effectively closed a key northwestern border crossing with Afghanistan to truck drivers. Pakistani authorities began requesting passports and visas from Afghan drivers, according to a Taliban official. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Pakistan effectively shuts the key crossing into Afghanistan to truck drivers

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghan girls attend a religious school, which remained open since the last year's Taliban takeover, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 11, 2022. Afghan girls of all ages are permitted to study in religious schools, which are traditionally boys-only, a Taliban official said Thursday Dec. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Afghan schoolgirls are finishing sixth grade in tears. Under Taliban rule, their education is over

By Mohammad Habib Rahmani - Associated Press

Rescue workers and relatives load a body of a police officer who was killed in a militant attack into an ambulance at a hospital in Tank, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. Militants staged attacks on a regional police headquarters and an army post in a former Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan before dawn Friday, triggering firefights that killed at least two police officers and a few insurgents, security officials said. (AP Photo)

5 officers and 5 militants die after attacks on police office and 2 army posts in northwest Pakistan

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

An Afghan women's soccer team poses for a photo in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. The Taliban must embrace and uphold human rights obligations in Afghanistan, the U.N. mission in the country said Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, on Human Rights Day and the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban have erased basic rights and freedoms, with women and girls deeply affected. They are excluded from most public spaces and daily life, and the restrictions have sparked global condemnation. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

U.N. says the Taliban must embrace and uphold human rights obligations in Afghanistan

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Members of the social group Aurat March hold signs during a demonstration against the Pakistani government, in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. The U.N. health agency is warning that about 1.3 million Afghans are expected to return to Afghanistan from Pakistan where authorities earlier are expelling foreigners, mostly Afghans, living in the country illegally. It had forced at least 340,000 Afghans to leave Pakistan after spending decades, officials said Friday. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

More than 400,000 Afghans have returned home from Pakistan following crackdown on migrants

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Police officers arrive to conduct a search operation against illegal immigrants, at a neighbourhood of Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Pakistan government launched a crackdown on migrants living in the country illegally as a part of the new measure which mainly target all undocumented or unregistered foreigners. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistan opens 3 new border crossings to deport Afghans in ongoing crackdown on migrants

By Abdul Sattar - Associated Press

Police officers try to control immigrants, mostly Afghans, gather to verify their data at a counter of Pakistan's National Database and Registration Authority, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Pakistan government launched a crackdown on migrants living in the country illegally as a part of the new measure which mainly target all undocumented or unregistered foreigners. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Analysts warn that Pakistan’s anti-migrant crackdown risks radicalizing deported Afghans

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Afghan refugees settle in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. A huge number of Afghans refugees entered the Torkham border to return home hours before the expiration of a Pakistani government deadline for those who are in the country illegally to leave or face deportation. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Pakistani premier tries to reassure Afghans waiting for visas to U.S. that they won’t be deported

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Immigrants, mostly Afghans, show their ID cards as they wait their turn to verify data at a counter of Pakistan's National Database and Registration Authority, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Pakistan government launched a crackdown on migrants living in the country illegally as a part of the new measure which mainly target all undocumented or unregistered foreigners. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Media watchdog asks Pakistan not to deport 200 Afghan journalists in undocumented migrant crackdown

By Munir Ahmed and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows damage, center right, after a militant attack targeted the Mianwali Training Air Base in Pakistan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. Satellite photos analyzed Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, by The Associated Press showed damage at the air base following an attack by nine militants, whom the Pakistani military described as killing during their assault. (Planet Labs LBC via AP)

Pakistan steps up security at military and other sensitive installations after attack on an air base

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Afghan refugees settle in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. A huge number of Afghans refugees entered the Torkham border to return home hours before the expiration of a Pakistani government deadline for those who are in the country illegally to leave or face deportation. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Afghans fleeing Pakistan lack water, food and shelter once they cross the border, aid groups say

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Afghan refugees settle in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border, in Torkham, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. A huge number of Afghan refugees entered the Torkham border to return home hours before the expiration of a Pakistani government deadline for those who are in the country illegally to leave or face deportation. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban appeal to Afghan private sector to help those fleeing Pakistan’s mass deportation drive

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Afghans retrieve useful stuff from their damaged mud homes demolished by authorities during a crackdown against an illegal settlement and immigrants, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Dozens of Afghans who were illegally in Pakistan are detained and deported in nationwide sweeps

By Munir Ahmed and Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Afghans wait for transport to depart for their homeland, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. U.N. agencies have reported a sharp increase in Afghans returning home since Pakistan launched a crackdown on people living in the country illegally. Pakistan earlier this month said it will arrest and deport undocumented or unregistered foreigners after Oct. 31. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Afghans in droves head to border to leave Pakistan ahead of a deadline in anti-migrant crackdown

By Riaz Khan and Abdul Sattar - Associated Press

Matiullah Wesa, a girls' education advocate, reads to students in the open area in Spin Boldak district in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan on May 21, 2022. The Taliban have freed the Afghan activist who campaigned for the education of girls, a local nonprofit organization said Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. Wesa was arrested seven months ago and spent 215 days in prison, according to the group, Pen Path. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Khan)

Taliban free Afghan activist arrested 7 months ago after campaigning for girls’ education

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In this handout photo released by Save the Children, An Afghan woman with her children walk amid debris after a powerful earthquake in Herat province, western of Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (Save the Children via AP)

Restricted rights put Afghan women and girls in a ‘deadly situation’ during quakes, UN official says

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