“The new generation would never accept wearing a burka, because of the design and colour,” said 23-year-old Tahmina Adel in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

The Independent has marked International Women’s Day by compiling a list of the 50 most influential women across the worlds of politics, sports, the arts, media, business, fashion and activism.

Young barbers are setting up shop in smaller regional communities, with their success fuelled by social media.

They have gradually erased Afghan women from public space, imposing what the United Nations has called a "gender apartheid". They outlawed the loose headscarves commonly worn by urban women.

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a ...

KHYBER: As many as 50 captured Afghan children were sent back to their country by the Pakistani authorities via the Torkham border on ‘humanitarian’ grounds late on Sunday evening after the ...

According to the Foreign Office, Pakistan’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Ambassador Muhammad Sadiq, is visiting Afghanistan from March 21-23 at the direction of Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign ...

open image in gallery Taliban security personnel stand guard as an Afghan burqa-clad woman walks along a street at a market in the Baharak district of Badakhshan province (AFP/Getty) Afghan women ...

Many players from the Afghanistan women's team fled the country for fear of persecution when the Taliban took control of the Afghan government. The women's team has since been unable to compete ...

At least one person has been killed as Pakistani and Afghan security forces have traded fire at the recently closed main border crossing between the two countries. Afghanistan’s Ministry of ...