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Tag: Taliban

Woman with One Arm Who Escaped Taliban Wins Bronze in Taekwondo at Paralympics

“It was a surreal moment. My heart started beating fast,” Zakia Khudadadi, 25, said of the moment she “threw my helmet and mouthpiece into the air” after winning against Turkey's Ekinci Nurcihan in the women's taekwondo event at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on Thursday. Fox News Reported Hudadadi said she was “smuggled” from Afghanistan, […]

Taliban escapee with 1 arm wins taekwondo medal at Paralympics for refugee team

Zakia Khudadadi won the bronze medal in women's taekwondo on Thursday, becoming the Refugee Paralympic Team's first medallist. The medal marks a major milestone in Khudadadi's long and winding story, which began with her being born without forearms and includes her escape from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan many years ago. Immediately after defeating Turkey's Ekinci Nurcihan in […]

Taliban Claims U.N. Will Help Fund ‘Small Business’ Loans in Afghanistan

The ruling Taliban-controlled Afghanistan state news agency reported on Monday in a now-deleted article that the United Nations Political Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) was working to “facilitate small-scale projects through loan clauses.” In a separate article, still available on its website, state news agency Bakhtar reported that UNAMA head Roza Otunbayeva said broadly that UNAMA […]

Taliban rebukes UN concerns over laws banning women’s faces, voices in public

The Taliban on Monday rejected United Nations concerns and criticism over a new vice and virtue law that would ban Afghan women from revealing their faces or making any public appearances in public. Roza Otunbayeva, head of the UN mission in the country (UNAMA), said on Sunday that the law presented “dire prospects” for Afghanistan’s […]

Taliban government issues public ban on women’s voices, bare faces

Afghanistan’s Taliban regime has banned women from speaking or showing their faces in public under a new law approved by the supreme leader as part of efforts to fight vice and promote virtue. The laws were promulgated on Wednesday with the approval of Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, a government spokesman said. After seizing power in […]

Taliban Bans U.N. Human Rights Envoy from Afghanistan for ‘Propaganda’

The Taliban announced on Wednesday that they had banned the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, from entering the country. The Taliban claimed Bennett was banned because he lacked “professionalism” and was spreading “propaganda”. Taliban Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Kahar Barki said Reuters reported on Wednesday that the Taliban regime was […]

US failure in Taliban intel has opened Afghanistan up to Russia, China

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