Opinion: The Taliban are waging war on women in Afghanistan. This is how we are resisting theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

The Observer view on Afghanistan: Britain and the US are complicit in the Taliban’s oppression of women theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Politics UK The Guardian Labour learning fast, that’s it’s much easier to be in opposition during trying times than it is to be in government.

Ready for today’s oral update on the human rights situation in Afghanistan at the #hrc which may start earlier. If interested, please start following @untv (see below) from 3pm CEST

Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 Trying to sound like some sort of revolutionary freedom fighter when all he is a racist thug on someone’s payroll.

Pakistani media outlets, including Geo News and Radio Pakistan, have reported that eight Taliban fighters were killed and 16 others wounded in a recent border clash with Pakistani forces. afintl.com/en/202409095060

Utterly shocking that the UK Foreign Office has shut down Afghanistan's embassy after the Taliban dismissed its staff. David Lammy - how can the UK justify cooperating with a regime that bans girls from school? Is this the future of UK foreign policy? apnews.com/article/uk-afg…

Is this a silent way of giving the Taliban a carte Blanche? The Taliban disown the staff so the government follows through by shutting the embassy? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The female voice itself has become an act of dissent in Taliban Occupied Afghanistan lemonde.fr/en/opinion/art…

The far right framed people’s financial struggles as an issue of migration. The oldest trick in the book, and people are still naive enough to fall for it.

On this day, September 8, 1986, Shaheed Mohtarma #BenazirBhutto, who fearlessly combated dictatorship and faced every challenge, stood resolutely before the devoted party workers of #Karachi. A moment etched in history, her unwavering commitment to democracy and justice continues

Very concerning developments.

"The Sindh govt is launching a Sub-National Immunisation Days campaign from Sept 9th to 15th, 2024, to vaccinate 9.4M children under 5 across 30 districts against polio. With 17 cases in Pakistan this year, parents are urged to ensure their children receive every dose. " ~

Kate, the Princess of Wales, said in a video message Monday that she has completed chemotherapy. trib.al/XytNWfM

🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak has urged Labour MPs to 'do the right thing' and join the Tories in voting against the cuts to winter fuel payments tomorrow "There are a lot of difficult decisions in politics. This is not one of them." [Daily Express]

Everything the light touches… RIP James Earl Jones