ISLAMABAD: Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US special envoy for Afghanistan during Donald Trump’s first term as president, said on Monday that Afghan deputy foreign minister Shir Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai’s remarks calling upon his government to scrap the ban on education for women was a “promising development”.Stanikzai’s rare public criticism coincided with ongoing international pressure on…
ISLAMABAD: Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai criticized Taliban on Sunday, saying that they do not regard women as human beings and has established a system of “gender apartheid,” justifying their crimes with cultural and religious excuses.“Taliban do not see women as human beings. They cloak their crimes in cultural and religious justifications. They punish women…
File photo: Malala Yousafzai (Picture credit: AP) Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai called on Muslim leaders to reject and resist the Afghan Taliban’s restrictions on women and girls’ education. “Do not legitimise them,” she urged while addressing delegates from Muslim-majority nations gathered to discuss advancing girls’ education in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Sunday. Malala,…
