Sher Abbas Stanikzai urges the Taliban to reconsider its ban on girls' education, citing no religious basis for it.

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no ...

A SENIOR Taliban figure has urged the group's head to do away with education prohibitions on Afghan women and girls, say-ing there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

A senior Taliban official has publicly called for an end to the ban on education for Afghan women and girls, urging the group’s leadership to reverse the policy in a rare display of internal dissent.

The rare public rebuke from Sher Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban deputy foreign minister, comes amid persistent international ...

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