MONITORING (SW) – The Islamic Emirate’s Ministry of Promoting Virtue and Prohibiting the Evil has confirmed that last month it sent a letter to all government departments asking officials there to grow beards and wear skull caps.
KABUL (SW) – The interim foreign minister of the Islamic Emirate, Amir Khan Mutaqqi has reached Beijing to attend a meeting of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries’ foreign ministers.
MONITORING (SW) – The World Bank has put four projects in Afghanistan worth $600 million on hold amid concerns over a decision by the country’s ruling Islamist leaders to ban girls from returning to public high schools, the bank said.
MONITORING (SW) – Achim Steiner, director of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has called on the leaders of the Islamic Emirate to reconsider their decision on girls’ education and press freedom.
