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The UN will seek to meet with the Taliban leadership to obtain clarity on ban on women working in NGOs in Afghanistan

All domestic and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Afghanistan have been ordered by the Taliban govt to ban female employees

Several male students at the Nangarhar University in Jalalabad and at Kandahar University in Afghanistan staged a protest and expressed solidarity with the women. The male students walked out of the examination hall at the University and stood by women's rights in the country.

The ban on higher education comes three months after thousands of girls and women across the country took university entrance exams. 

When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, they imposed a blanket ban on girls' education. It appears the same system will slowly creep into the country led by Islamists.

The Taliban, through their intelligence operations and access to employment records that the former government left behind, have identified new targets for arrest and execution. 

"The way the Taliban are trying to build a Muslim nation. In the same way, some people present the concept of Hindu Rashtra to us," Akhtar had said last year

Mohammad Ismail Rahmani, a senior leader of Taliban, defended public executions and termed them as 'divine commands'.

Taliban has recently ordered Afghan judges to fully execute Sharia law provisions such as public executions, stoning, flogging, and amputation of limbs of persons guilty of specific offences

Hina Rabbani Khar also stated that Islamabad cannot cooperate with a "changed" India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi