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International Criminal Court accuses Afghan Taliban leaders: In a massive bad news for the Taliban government of Afghanistan, the International Criminal Court (ICC) recently issued arrest warrants against the Taliban’s supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court. Accusing them of atrocities against women and girls since taking power nearly four years ago, the International Criminal Court has accused the Taliban leaders of “persecuting individuals who do not comply with the Taliban’s policy on gender, gender identity or expression”

What has International Criminal Court said?

“While the Taliban have imposed certain rules and restrictions on the entire population, they have particularly targeted girls and women on the basis of their gender, depriving them of fundamental rights and freedoms,” the court said in a statement.

International Criminal Court accuses Taliban

Not stopping here, the ICC also accused persecution against girls and individuals considered allies of women on political grounds.

What’s International Criminal Court?

The International Criminal Court is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands

Pakistan urges UN action over Afghan-based terror threats

In another important development on Taliban, Pakistan informed the United Nations that it possesses credible evidence of growing collaboration between banned terrorist outfits including Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), and the Majeed Brigade–groups allegedly operating from ungoverned spaces in Afghanistan to target Pakistan’s infrastructure and development projects, The Dawn reported as quoted by ANI news agency.

The report also quoted Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, told the UN General Assembly as saying that these groups were intensifying attacks on Pakistan in recent weeks.

“These weapons have been used by Afghan-based terrorists to launch increasingly sophisticated attacks against Pakistan, including in the last two weeks,” he said, referring to weapons and equipment left behind by international forces after their 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, The Dawn added.

(With inputs from agencies)

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