What is a 13-year-old daughter worth? For Khorsheed,a desperate Afghan mother,the meagre sum of $US670 seemed sadly acceptable.
The teacher,who was kidnapped by Taliban forces in 2016 and returned to Australia under a prisoner swap deal,now says he admires the Taliban fighters.
On this episode of Good Weekend Talks,writer Tim Elliott speaks with photojournalist Andrew Quilty about working in Kabul during last year’s Taliban takeover.
For photojournalist Andrew Quilty,Afghanistan and its people were captivating. Then,overnight,the life he had known disappeared.
Lynne O’Donnell,who has reported on and off from Afghanistan for about two decades,says she was detained by the Taliban and forced to deny her reporting.
Taliban intelligence officials threatened an Australian journalist with jail unless she publicly apologised for reporting on alleged abuses by the group,she has said.
Women have a right to be angry. Recent events around the world are acts of profound violence against women,taking them back to a time of masculine ownership and female subjugation.
In a rare move,the Taliban’s supreme leader pleaded with the international community and humanitarian organisations for help.
The explosion in the mosque in Kabul occurred just hours after deadly bombs hit passenger vehicles in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun enforcing an order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air as part of a hard-line shift.
The Taliban order is a sharp,hard-line pivot that confirms the worst fears of rights activists.