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Mail Online: Taliban officials are sending their daughters to overseas schools despite the regime not allowing many female secondary students in classrooms, according to a report. Senior officials are sending their children to schools and universities, including in Qatar, southwest Asia, while millions of female secondary school students in Afghanistan have been deprived of education since the Taliban seized power in August.

RAWA NEWS is a selection of news from Afghanistan which reflects the bitter realities of life in Afghanistan but rarely appear in the world media. The news uncover the disastrous life of Afghan women, children and the whole nation under the US occupation, its puppet regime, the brutal rule of the warlords and Taliban.

Etlat-Rooz: Residents have staged a protest following the killing of a civilian in Kabul’s Mirbacheh Kot district. The incident took place this evening (Monday, February 7) in the “Sarai Khaja” area of Mirbacheh Kot district of Kabul and the victim was a shopkeeper. Protesters carried the body on the Parwan-Kabul highway, chanting “Death to the Taliban!” slogan as the road closed to traffic.

Afghanistan International TV: A spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Promoting Virtue and Prohibiting Virtue said 15,000 mullahs had been recruited across Afghanistan. Mohammad Sadegh Akef said that among their missionaries, there are currently no Shiite mullahs, but the process of hiring mullahs from other religions continues. In an interview with Entekhab Media, he said that the fight against Western ideology in Afghanistan is one of the main plans of the Taliban in the coming years.

BBC: An Afghan female activist has been forcibly taken from her home, the latest in a string of alleged arrests by the Taliban. A source told the BBC that authorities had arrested Mursal Ayar at her home in the capital Kabul on Wednesday. Ms Ayar is the sixth woman to have been taken by the Taliban in the past weeks, the BBC understands. The Taliban has denied detaining the women. A spokesman said they were looking into Ms Ayar’s case.

RAWA NEWS is a selection of news from Afghanistan which reflects the bitter realities of life in Afghanistan but rarely appear in the world media. The news uncover the disastrous life of Afghan women, children and the whole nation under the US occupation, its puppet regime, the brutal rule of the warlords and Taliban.

UN News: “We are gravely concerned for their well-being and safety”, Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, told journalists at a regular press briefing in Geneva. Despite the de facto authorities’ announcement on Saturday of an investigation into the disappearance two weeks ago of these individuals, “there is still no confirmed information on their whereabouts”, she added.

RAWA NEWS is a selection of news from Afghanistan which reflects the bitter realities of life in Afghanistan but rarely appear in the world media. The news uncover the disastrous life of Afghan women, children and the whole nation under the US occupation, its puppet regime, the brutal rule of the warlords and Taliban.

BBC World Service: Sheila Dost holds back tears as she tells me about the day she brought her two young children to demonstrate against Taliban restrictions on girls’ education. “I asked my children to put on burial shrouds and told them we may get killed today but we have to accept that because if it means it’ll bring some kind of change, then it’ll be worth it.” Before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August, the mother of three was a teacher at a seco...

VICE: The Taliban forced a local musician to watch as they burned his instruments and mocked him before a large crowd. The video shows the musician shedding tears while watching his harmonium and drum burn as Taliban soldiers preach to a crowd. He appears to have been mauled by the Taliban soldiers as the arms and back of his coat have been badly torn. The footage was recorded in Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan, and went viral after being posted on social media on Saturday.