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Kabul (AFP) - Two senior UN leaders said Wednesday they were pressing the Taliban to reverse its restrictions on Afghan women, particularly a ban on working in aid delivery, with one official warning that "famine is looming" during the harsh winter.

UN aid chief Martin Griffiths met Taliban officials in a bid to push them to further relax the ban on women workers.

Matiullah Wesa set up the voluntary organisation Pen Path in 2009.

The United Nations' aid chief visited Kabul on Monday and raised concerns over women's education and work with the Taliban administration's acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said. The Taliban-run administration last month ordered NGOs not to allow most female employees to work, prompting many aid agencies…

The United Nations' aid chief visited Kabul on Monday and raised concerns over women's education and work with the Taliban administration's acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said.

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Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai had also been convicted of drug-dealing in Italy

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai had also been convicted of drug-dealing in Italy.

The backlog of 71,000 applications is making Afghans ‘unsafe’, charities warn