An Iftar meal is set as people wait to break fast at their home during Ramadan in Kabul, Afghanistan, 24 March 2023. Iftar is the fast-breaking meal eaten by Muslims during the fasting month of Ramadan immediately after sunset. Muslims around the world celebrate Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in the Koran was during its last 10 nights. (Photo by Samiuallah Popal/EPA/EFE)





Girls stand in their classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. The new Afghan educational year started, but high school remained closed for girls for the second year after Taliban returned to power in 2021. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Tarawat, a 17-year-old girl who has stopped studying, looks out from a window in her room, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, March 25, 2023. The new Afghan educational year started, but high school remained closed for girls for the second year after Taliban returned to power in 2021. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Afghan children stand by their damaged home after heavy rain in the Zari District of Balkh province, in northern Afghanistan, Saturday, March 25, 2023. Snowfall and heavy rain killed at least three people in Afghanistan, including a child, a government spokesman said Saturday. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Afghan children attend a class at an open air school on the outskirts of Fayzabad district, Badakhshan province on March 27, 2023. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





Taliban fighters stand guard at the explosion site, near the Foreign Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 27, 2023. A suicide bomber has struck near the foreign ministry in the Afghan capital, killing at least six people and wounding about a dozen. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Taliban security personnel use a tractor to destroy a poppy plantation in Injil district of Herat Province on March 29, 2023. (Photo by Mohsen Karimi/AFP Photo)





An Afghan farmer carrying a boy and a bundle of grass wades across a river in Mihtarlam city of Laghman Province on March 29, 2023. (Photo by Shafiullah Kakar/AFP Photo)





Afghan children attend an open air school, an educational initiative by an Afghan man Wazir Khan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, 29 March 2023. A young volunteer, Wazir Khan who himself is a university student, has taken an initiative called “Today's Child” in Kabul to provide free education to approximately 500 children, who can't afford to go to school as there is no school in their neighborhood. Despite being set up in an open space without facilities, students have expressed their joy at the establishment of the school. The Taliban government, which seized power over a year and a half ago following the withdrawal of American troops, banned girls from attending secondary schools and universities. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA/EFE)





A traffic policeman gestures whilst on duty amid a flooded road in Kabul on April 3, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Local residents gather after flash floods affected Fayzabad district of Badakhshan province on April 2, 2023. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





Farmers sort strawberries after harvesting from a field on the outskirts of Jalalabad on April 4, 2023. (Photo by Shafiullah Kakar/AFP Photo)





A Taliban security personnel take pictures of his colleague using a mobile phone at the Wazir Akbar Khan hilltop overlooking the Kabul city on April 4, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





An Afghan boy eats ice cream with his sister on the outskirts of Kabul on April 6, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





A view of Sky Game Net, after it was closed, in Herat province, western Afghanistan, Monday, April 10, 2023. The Taliban have banned families and women from restaurants with gardens or green spaces in Afghanistan's northwestern Herat province, an official said Monday. The moves followed complaints from religious scholars and members of the public about mixing of genders in such places, he said. (Photo by Omid Haqjoo/AP Photo)





Afghan boys fly a kite at a hilltop in Kabul on April 10, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Men gather inside the courtyard of a drug rehabilitation and treatment centre on the outskirts of Kabul on April 18, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





A Taliban fighter stands guard on Nadir Khan hill while a girl rides a merry-go-round, during the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 21, 2023. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Afghan children enjoy their time on Nadir Khan hill during the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 21, 2023. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Taliban fighters stand guard as Afghan people attend Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 21, 2023. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)