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Five Years of Isolation and Reversal: Assessing Taliban Rule on International Day of the Girl
DID Press: As the world marks the International Day of the Girl, attention has once again turned to one of the region’s most pressing human rights and education crises. Five years have passed since the Taliban returned to power in…
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Taliban: Pakistani Military Circles Are Obstructing Talks With Afghanistan
DID Press: Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Taliban, has accused some Pakistani military circles of obstructing negotiations and making it more difficult to resolve disputes between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mujahid criticised what he described as the role of certain military…
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Kandahar Industrialists Warn of Factory Relocations Over Power Shortages
DID Press: Industrialists in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province have warned that they may relocate their factories to other provinces if persistent electricity shortages are not addressed. Factory owners say the power shortage has disrupted industrial operations and increased production costs,…
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South Korea, US Warn Citizens Amid Attacks on Saudi Arabia
DID Press: South Korea and United States have issued security warnings to their citizens over escalating attacks on major Saudi airports, urging people to avoid non-essential travel to the kingdom as security concerns mount. South Korea’s Foreign Ministry raised its…
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Israeli Media: Saudi Arabia Is Withholding Information on Aramco Damage
DID Press: Israel’s Channel 14 television network has claimed that damage to Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco, is significantly greater than officially acknowledged, alleging that Saudi authorities are withholding information about the extent of the destruction. The report…
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Schools Closed and Public Gatherings Banned in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
DID Press: Authorities in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have introduced new security measures, including the closure of educational institutions in several districts and a 30-day ban on gatherings of more than five people in Hangu district. According to local media…
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Fazlur Rehman Accuses Pakistan Govt of Electoral Fraud, Security Failures
DID Press: Maulana Fazlur Rehman, leader of Pakistan’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) party, has questioned the legitimacy of the country’s current government, alleging that it came to power through electoral fraud. Fazlur Rehman criticised the government, claiming that it had failed…
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UNICEF Urges Action to End Child Marriage in Afghanistan
DID Press: UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for urgent action to end child marriage in Afghanistan and urged the Taliban to allow adolescent girls to return to secondary education beyond Grade 6. In a statement issued on Sunday to…
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Trump Floats Renaming Atlantic or Pacific Ocean “Trump Ocean”
DID Press: US President Donald Trump has suggested renaming either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean as “Trump Ocean” or “Ocean of the Americas,” extending his push to change the names of major geographical landmarks. Trump made the remarks during a…
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Algerian Media Figure Accuses Al Jazeera of Exposing Resistance Leaders’ Locations
DID Press: Algerian media figure Yahya Abu Zakariya has accused Al Jazeera of contributing to the targeting and killing of prominent leaders of Palestinian resistance groups and Lebanon’s Hezbollah by broadcasting reports, images and interviews that he says exposed fighters’…
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