A number of Afghan journalists, women’s rights activists, former military personnel, and civil society activists residing in Pakistan held a gathering in Islamabad to protest against the forced deportation of Afghan migrants.

Save the Children has announced that about 37 thousand children under the age of five and 10 thousand pregnant and breastfeeding women in earthquake-affected areas of Afghanistan are struggling with severe malnutrition.

The Powerful Women’s Movement, on the occasion of International Literacy Day (September 8), condemned this deprivation through a statement and called it a clear violation of human rights and the extinguishing of the future of a nation. The statement said: “The only crime of Afghan girls is being women.”

An explosion of explosives in a residential house in Bala Boluk district of Farah province claimed the lives of seven members of a family, including a woman and five children.