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Ottawa, and the lessons unlearned in Afghanistan
The Editorial Board
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Former female Afghan MP shot dead in Kabul home, police say
A woman looks at a picture of former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada on her mobile phone, who was shot dead by gunmen last night at her house in Kabul on January 15, 2023. - Mursal Nabizada had been a member of parliament in the previous Western-backed regime who had turned down the opportunity to flee Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power in August 2021. "Nabizada, along with one of her bodyguards, was shot dead at her house," Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said on January 15. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
olympics
Australia withdraw from ODI series against Afghanistan in March
FILE - Afghanistan's Rashid Khan celebrates the dismissal of Pakistan's Shadab Khan during the T20 cricket match of Asia Cup between Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates on Sept. 7, 2022. Inexperience in Australia’s sometimes hostile batting conditions isn’t likely to unnerve an Afghan cricket team that is all too familiar with having to overcome adversity. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)
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Prince Harry’s new memoir Spare draws anger and protests in Afghanistan
FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2012 file photo Britain's Prince Harry or just plain Captain Wales as he is known in the British Army, wears his monocle gun sight as he sits in the front seat of his cockpit at the British controlled flight-line in Camp Bastion southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/ John Stillwell, File)
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U.N. envoy meets with Afghan higher education chief over ban on women
Markus Potzel (front), Germany' Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, attends the Intra Afghan Dialogue talks in the Qatari capital Doha on July 7, 2019. - Dozens of powerful Afghans met with a Taliban delegation on July 7, amid separate talks between the US and the insurgents seeking to end 18 years of war. The separate intra-Afghan talks are attended by around 60 delegates, including political figures, women and other Afghan stakeholders. The Taliban, who have steadfastly refused to negotiate with the government of President Ashraf Ghani, have stressed that those attending are only doing so in a "personal capacity". (Photo by KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)KARIM JAAFAR/AFP/Getty Images
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Afghanistan’s Taliban administration to sign oil extraction deal with Chinese company
A Taliban fighter stands guard along a street in Kabul on December 27, 2022. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Islamic State group claims responsibility for deadly bombing near checkpoint at Kabul military airport
Taliban fighters check the site of an explosion, near the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul's military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding several people, a Taliban official said, the first deadly blast of 2023 in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Taliban seeks economic self-sufficiency and foreign investment for Afghanistan
An Afghan man walks past the office of a foreign aid group 'Care' in downtown Kabul on December 26, 2022. - Several foreign aid groups announced on December 25 they were suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the country's Taliban rulers ordered all NGOs to stop women staff from working. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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UN official meets Taliban deputy premier over women NGO ban
A Taliban fighter stands guard as a woman walks past in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. Recent Taliban rulings on Afghan women include bans on university education and working for NGOs. Security in the capital Kabul has intensified in recent days, with more checkpoints, armed vehicles, and Taliban special forces on the streets. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Kabul checkpoint bomb blast kills, wounds several
Taliban fighters check the site of an explosion, near the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul's military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding several people, a Taliban official said, the first deadly blast of 2023 in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
politics
Canada, other countries, urge Taliban to reverse its decision banning women from working at NGOs
opinion
Banning education for Afghan women runs counter to Islamic teachings
Sheema Khan
canada
Canada urges Taliban to reverse decision on banning women from NGO work
world
Soldier, militant dead in Pakistan after clash near border
world
Three NGOs suspend work in Afghanistan after Taliban bar women
world
Taliban order NGOs to ban female employees from coming to work
world
Taliban use water cannon on women protesting university ban
world
Taliban minister defends closing universities to women as global backlash grows
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