Images of women have been covered up or vandalised on storefronts around Kabul, a sign of the Afghan capital's rapidly changing face in the days since the Taliban took charge.
A day after the Taliban’s gun-toting militants entered Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani’s government collapsed, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan could not hide his glee. He was launching a government education programme in Islamabad on August 16 and ended up referring to the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan as people breaking “shackles of slavery”.
US President Joe Biden said in an interview that American troops may stay in Kabul even after the August 31 deadline to aid the evacuation of remaining Americans in Afghanistan. The IMF will block the Taliban-led Afghan government from accessing $460 million in reserve funds. Meanwhile, late Wednesday evening, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in a video said that he fled Kabul as
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