Kabul authorities contacted for taking body of terrorist killed in February 6 IBO, military's media wing says.

NORTH WAZIRISTAN / LAKKI MARWAT: Secu­rity forces killed three burqa-clad terrorists in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) ...

RAWALPINDI: One of the terrorists killed in a recent security operation in Datta Khel was found to be an Afghan national, the ...

In Kabul, residents were ordered to cover their ground and first-floor windows so women inside could not be seen from the street. If a woman left the house, it was in a full body veil (burqa), ...

Sports are forbidden,” she recalled. Terrified, she left Kabul, disguising herself in her burqa to travel to her family’s hometown. Eventually, she returned but remains in fear. “Even if my ...

In a move that outraged some traditionalists, the burka was no longer necessary. Soon women in Kabul were following the lead of Queen Soraya and wearing Western clothes on the city’s streets.

Her plight reminded me of a woman in her 20s I interviewed in Kabul in 2001. As a young mother, she lamented the inconvenience of being clad in a burqa, a garment covering the entire body ...