Peace

Marking International Women’s Day, a number of countries last week asked the caretaker government to remove restrictions on girls’ education and women’s work while neighboring nations insisted on cooperation for stability in Afghanistan.

Afghan and American officials last week accused each other of violating and not fully implementing the Doha Agreement, but Washington evinced an interest in engagement with Kabul despite reservations about its policies.

Talks between Afghan officials and a visiting high-level Pakistani delegation on security and economic issues in Kabul and an American judge’s ruling that relatives of the September 11, 2001 attacks are not entitled to funds from Afghanistan central bank were important news last week, when eight people were killed in separate incidents across the country.

Kabul last week rejected the massing of thousands of Daesh or Islamic State militants near the Tajikistan border.

Last week, the US imposed new restrictions on some ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ (IEA) Leaders, while some world bodies hailed Afghanistan’s significant progress in security, economic and anti-corruption areas.

Last week, massive protest demonistrations were held in Afghanistan against the descration of holy Quran, some sources urged women and girls should be allowed to get education and go to work while some stressed over continued interaction with the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ (IEA) government.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Last week, Japan, Ukraine and Saudi Arabia announced aid packages for Afghanistan, two international Organisations resumed operation whiel . . .

Last week, the ban on girls’ higher education and women employees of NGOs triggered widespread reactions, with the acting minister of interior saying work is underway on a reasonable and permanent solution.

The ban on women workers of national and international non-government organisations (NGOs) sparked widespread reactons but some officials of the caretaker government say religious scholars are striving to resolve the issue.

Last week, the ban on women higher education made headlines and sparked strong reaction at home and abroad, former President Hamid Karzai met some Afghan politicans in Turkey and discussed the importance of intra Afghan talks.

Last week, the UN credentials committee has postponed for the second time the membership of the acting Afghan government for 2023, international humanitarian aid continued to arrive in Afghanistan, while some countries termed inclusive government vital for Afghanistan.