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Pakistan has launched strikes on Afghanistan, stating they were in retaliation for recent suicide bombings in Pakistan. The Taliban claims dozens of people were killed in these strikes.
The Taliban is systematically implementing rules that severely restrict the rights and freedoms of women in Afghanistan, effectively crushing their autonomy and participation in society.
Afghanistan's new penal code, signed by the Taliban's supreme leader, permits husbands to physically abuse wives and children as long as it does not result in 'broken bones, open wounds'.
Pakistan's armed forces have launched strikes against seven terrorist camps and hideouts belonging to the Pakistani Taliban and ISIS-Khorasan along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, following recent suicide bombings.
The Taliban has reportedly issued guidelines permitting men to beat their wives, provided the abuse does not result in broken bones.
In Afghanistan, a clandestine book club for women meets weekly to read banned novels by authors like Orwell, Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad, and Ernest Hemingway, defying the Taliban's restrictions on education.
The Taliban is increasing its enforcement of rules regarding women's dress in the city of Herat, with crackdowns observed in hospitals, seminaries, and on buses.
Pakistan has issued a demarche to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, protesting the use of Afghan soil for a terrorist attack on security forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur.
A letter from health experts offers a hopeful perspective on the potential for continued progress in family planning initiatives in Afghanistan, even under the Taliban's governance.