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A classroom that previously was used for girls sits empty in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The country's Taliban rulers earlier this week ordered women nationwide to stop attending private and public universities effective immediately and until further notice. They have banned girls from middle school and high school, barred women from most fields of employment and ordered them to wear head-to-toe clothing in public. Women are also banned from parks and gyms.(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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Taliban ban women from working for domestic, foreign NGOs
By RIAZAT BUTT - Associated Press
Sat,12/24/22-7:02AM , 349 Reads
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban government on Saturday ordered all foreign and domestic non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to suspend employing women, allegedly because some female employees didn't wear the Islamic headscarf correctly.
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Bilal Sufi, left, owner of Baking Virsa eatery, serves traditional kebabs and naan bread in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. No menu. Baking Virsa, a hole-in-the-wall in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore described as the country's most expensive restaurant for serving household favorites like flatbreads and kebabs at exorbitant prices. (AP Photo/K. M. Chaudary)

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Exclusive dining: Pakistani hole-in-the wall dishes up faves
By RIAZAT BUTT - Associated Press
Tue,12/13/22-12:09AM , 222 Reads
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — No menu. No delivery. No walk-ins. Advance orders only. Explanations and instructions while you eat.

Welcome to Baking Virsa, a hole-in-the-wall in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore described as the country’s most expensive restaurant for what it serves — household favorites like flatbreads and kebabs.
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Villagers retrieve belongings, which were they kept on the higher ground, while they wade thorough flooded area, in Qambar Shahdadkot, a flood-hit district of Sindh province, Pakistan, Oct. 25, 2022. At the height of the floods in Sukkur, a city in Sindh that neighbors Baluchistan province, people used boats on the roads. Now, there are few signs the city was ever flooded as hundreds of pumps were brought in. Baluchistan is not so prepared, despite disaster striking it often. Around 75% of Baluchistan's population has been affected by this year's catastrophic rainfall. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

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Insurgency, neglect hurt flood relief in Pakistani province
By RIAZAT BUTT - Associated Press
Tue,11/22/22-12:09AM , 133 Reads
GANDAKHA, Pakistan (AP) — Maryam Jamali should have been preparing for an economics exam. Instead, the teenager from the flood-hit Pakistani province of Baluchistan was helping organize postpartum clinics and shelter for people neglected by relief efforts.
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A girl holds a chicken in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 28, 2022. A senior official with the International Committee of the Red Cross says that Afghans will struggle for their lives as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule and faces plummeting humanitarian conditions. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

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Red Cross: Afghans will struggle for their lives this winter
By RIAZAT BUTT - Associated Press
Mon,11/21/22-12:15AM , 124 Reads
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — More Afghans will be struggling for survival as living conditions deteriorate in the year ahead, a top official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said in an interview, as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule.
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