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On Afghanistan's Independence Day, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai (centre) called for the ruling Taliban to let girls go to school and university, reported dpa news agency. - Facebook

Since their return to power in Afghanistan two years ago, the Taliban have blocked access to secondary and university education for over 1.1 million young Afghan women, according to the UN - AFP

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Haji Ghulam Ali (2nd R), governor of KP province greets an injured man in a hospital in Peshawar on July 30, 2023, after at least 44 people were killed and dozens more wounded by a suicide bombing at a political gathering of a leading Islamic party in northwest Pakistan - AFP

Women walks past a beauty salon at the Shahr-e Naw area in Kabul on July 4, 2023. Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have ordered beauty parlours across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed on July 4, the latest curb to further squeeze women out of public life. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)

Taliban security personnel stand guard as men pray outside the Shah-e Doh Shamshira mosque ahead of Muslim festival Eid al-Adha in Kabul - AFP

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File picture of Afghan farmers seen harvesting opium sap from a poppy field in the Gereshk district of Helmand in 2017. (Photo by NOOR MOHAMMAD/AFP)

Afghan women walk along a road at the Pol-e Bagh-e-Omomi in Kabul on April 17, 2023. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)

Men wait to be released from a drug rehabilitation and treatment centre after the completion of their treatment, on the outskirts of Kabul on April 18. - Pic: AFP