Outrage as Afghan capital bans schoolgirls from singing in public
The order by the Kabul Directorate of Education has sparked an investigation by national authorities, and outrage as the country negotiates with the Taliban.
Ahmad Mukhtar is a producer for CBS News based in Toronto, Canada. He covers politics, conflict and terrorism, with a focus on news from Canada and his home nation of Afghanistan, which he left following the Taliban's return to power in 2021. He reports for all CBS News platforms.
Ahmad has a bachelor's degree in political science and public administration from the American University of Afghanistan and a master's degree in disaster and emergency management from York University in Toronto. He started his career in journalism with CBS News in Kabul in 2009.
He became CBS News' Kabul bureau chief in 2013, helping to lead coverage of America's longest ever war before leaving the country in 2021.
The order by the Kabul Directorate of Education has sparked an investigation by national authorities, and outrage as the country negotiates with the Taliban.
As the Taliban talks peace, Afghan and U.S. officials say it's using the targeted slaughter of Afghanistan's journalists for leverage.
Assault at Kabul University is just the latest in a string of attacks targeting Afghan colleges, and the Taliban says it's not involved this time.
Qamar Gul grabbed the rifle her father taught her to use and turned it on the militants who broke into their home.
Pentagon officials say they have been ordered to begin planning a troop drawdown in Afghanistan
CBS News' Ahmad Mukhtar is used to covering the terror attacks that plague Afghanistan, but this time, he was lucky to escape alive