Thousands of Afghans who were detained in Pakistani and Iranian prisons have been sent back to Afghanistan as Islamabad and Tehran ramp up the expulsion of Afghan citizens.
A network of secret schools is educating around 1,000 teenage girls in southern Afghanistan, a largely tribal and conservative region that has long been the stronghold of the Taliban. The extremist group banned education for girls above the sixth grade soon after seizing power in 2021.
Afghan and international media watchdogs have condemned Afghanistan's hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers for handing down a one-year sentence to journalist Sultan Ali Jawadi on unspecified charges and called for his immediate release, along with the freeing of another recently detained media member.
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