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Girls attend school on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, March 25, 2023
CALLS mounted today for the Taliban to free a girls’ education activist arrested earlier this week in Kabul, as an Afghan government minister defended the detention.
Matiullah Wesa, founder and president of Pen Path, a local non-governmental group that travels across Afghanistan with a mobile school and library, was arrested in the capital on Monday.
Since returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have barred girls from school beyond the sixth grade and last year banned women from going to universities.
Afghan women living under the Taliban are navigating a system that makes their public existence conditional on male approval, writes SHUKRIA RAHIMI
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Modi has rolled out the carpet for the Taliban in New Delhi — and we shouldn’t be surprised. They have more in common than you might think, argues Bhabani Shankar Nayak
