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The Taliban will use security forces to stop women from visiting one of Afghanistan’s most popular national parks, according to information shared by a spokesman for the Vice and Virtue Ministry. The ministry alleges that women have not been observing the proper way to wear the hijab, or Islamic headscarf,…

Exclusive: Don’t allow pilot to fall into ‘tragic’ destitution, government warned, after The Independent’s campaign sees him win asylum

Afghan pilot can finally stay in UK – but the process to reuniting him with his family is a long and arduos one

Military and political leaders demand action to save loved ones – as they applaud The Independent’s victory in forcing government to grant asylum

The small numbers coming to the UK are in contrast to the promise of 20,000 places, charity says

One organisation said the figures ‘reveal the shocking reality of the Government’s failure to provide protection for vulnerable Afghans’.

‘There are people who came to us for help, and we owe them,’ says former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, amid win for Independent campaign

Here is a timeline of all the frontpages that led to today’s monumental victory

Exclusive: After five months of resisting this paper’s call to honour our debt to a war veteran who fought with UK forces, the government capitulates – and does the right thing

The litmus test for Pakistan as a democratic state lies in its ability to safeguard the rights of even its smallest minority

Geoffrey Swenson’s book Contending Orders tackles Afghanistan and Timor-Leste.