Taliban dismiss more than 200 university staff in southeastern Afghanistan, sources say

Women's rights, cultural and religious pluralism continue to be restricted, and the Taliban tolerates little outside of their religious and ethnic order. However, deportations to Afghanistan continue.

Taliban dismiss more than 200 university staff in southeastern Afghanistan, sources say

Taliban have dismissed more than 200 professors and university employees in the southeastern provinces of Khost and Paktia as part of a sweeping campaign to downsize public institutions, according to four academic and administrative sources familiar with the matter. In Khost, 120 faculty and staff members at Sheikh Zayed University were removed from their posts in a single day, a source at the university told Amu. The majority of those dismissed…