LONDON: G7 foreign ministers on Thursday called on Afghanistan to “urgently reverse” a ban on women working in the country’s aid sector, a joint statement said.

The ministers said they were “gravely concerned that the Taliban’s reckless and dangerous order barring female employees of national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from the workplace puts at risk millions of Afghans who depend on humanitarian assistance for their survival”.

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“We call on the Taliban to urgently reverse this decision,” they said in the statement issued by Britain’s foreign ministry.