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

Appealing directly to the supreme leader of Afghanistan, deputy foreign minister Sher Abbas Stanikzai said that there was 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.

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

Senior Taliban official calls for end to education bans on Afghan women and girls, challenging government policy publicly.