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Afghan Taliban to start issuing passports again

  • 05 Oct 2021
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An Afghan woman holds her passport. File/Reuters

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Taliban-led Afghanistan government on Monday announced that the government will start issuing passports to its citizens again on Tuesday after months of delays.

A senior official Alam Gul Haqqani, the passport office's acting head, told reporters in Kabul they would issue between 5,000 and 6,000 passports a day and women would be employed to handle the processing of female citizens' documents.

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So far under the Taliban, young Afghan girls have been allowed to return to primary school but older girls have been barred from going to high school and most women have not been allowed to return to work.

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