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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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Afghan firefighters extinguish vehicles on fire after an attack at the main gate of International Hamed Karzai Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 10, 2015. At a time when Americans are deeply divided along party lines, a new poll shows agreement on at least one issue: The United States' two-decade-long war in Afghanistan was not worth fighting. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Republicans and Democrats agree that the Afghanistan war wasn’t worth it, an AP-NORC poll shows

By Linley Sanders and Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

An Afghan girl cries in front of her house that was destroyed by the earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, U.N. says

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Afghan people carry the body of a relative killed in an earthquake to a burial site after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western of Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Powerful earthquakes killed at least 2,000 people in western Afghanistan, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday. It's one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Senior Taliban officials visit province struck by earthquake that killed at least 2,000 people

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghan families wait to board into a bus to depart for their homeland, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Pakistan's government announced a major crackdown Tuesday on migrants in the country illegally, saying it would expel them starting next month and raising alarm among foreigners without documentation who include an estimated 1.7 million Afghans. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

U.N. warns Pakistan that forcibly deporting Afghans could lead to severe human rights violations

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

In this photo provided by District Police Office, injured victims of bomb explosion are treated at a hospital, in Mastung near Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. A powerful bomb exploded at a rally celebrating the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad in southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing multiple people and wounding dozens of others, police and a government official said. (District Police Office via AP)

Dozens dead after blast in southwestern Pakistan at a rally celebrating birthday of Islam’s prophet

By Abdul Sattar - Associated Press