In September 2022, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai created a flutter by calling on the Taliban to reopen secondary schools to girls during a televised speech. The Taliban’s acting deputy foreign ...

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai said, "In the time of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), the doors of knowledge were open to both men and women." The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister ...

Criticizing the ongoing ban, Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai stated: “Today, out of a population of 40 million, we are committing injustice against 20 million people.” ...

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, who previously led a team of negotiators at the Taliban's political office in Doha before U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, said in a speech at the ...

Bodies of Haji Sher Mohammad and his colleague and close relative Ibrar Afridi, with their throats slit, were found in a hilly area of Bhutan Shareef in Tirah valley early on Tuesday after the two ...

A Taliban leader criticised the group's policy toward girls and women. Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai called for schools for girls to be opened. Universities were closed to women in 2022. The Taliban's ...

Taliban Deputy Foreign Minister Calls for Girls' High Schools to Open KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister called on his senior leadership to open schools for Afghan ...

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, who previously led a team of negotiators at the Taliban's political office in Doha before U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, said in a speech at the ...