He added there was still more to do.

Ms Hall was arrested while travelling with the couple to their home in central Bamyan province.Ms Entwistle has said that her 79-year-old father is suffering severe medical issues while imprisoned, including a chest infection, eye infections and digestive issues. She has alleged that he has also been beaten since being detained.

"Our desperate appeal to the Taliban is that they release them to their home, where they have the medication he needs to survive," she told the Sunday Times.Artist Graham Sutherland, who painted a portrait of Sir Winston Churchill that the wartime leader hated, has been honoured with a blue plaque in south London.The commemorative plate from English Heritage is located at his childhood home, on Dorset Road in Merton Park.

Sutherland's painting of Churchill was commissioned in 1954 by the Houses of Parliament, but the former prime minister hated the depiction so much that it was taken away and secretly burnt on the orders of his wife, Lady Clementine Churchill.was sold by Sotheby's auction house for £660,000.

Sutherland trained at Goldsmiths' College in the 1920s and was commissioned as an official war artist during World War Two.

He painted dozens of portraits in the 1950s and 60s and was also known for his religious artwork including the central tapestry for the new Coventry Cathedral - Christ In Glory In The Tetramorph - which he designed.“My family feels so proud of me. I have left my children at home to come here, but they know I’m serving the country. This works gives me so much positive energy,” said Safia.

Many acknowledged their privilege, and some expressed fear about whether even this might be stopped eventually. The Taliban’s health ministry didn’t answer questions about how they would find students to do this course in the future, if girls were not receiving formal education after grade six.Public health, security, arts and craft are among a handful of sectors where women have been able to continue working in parts of the country. But it isn’t a formal decree that gives them permission. It’s happening through a quiet understanding between ground-level Taliban officials, NGOs and other stakeholders involved.

The new law leaves even this informal system vulnerable to the scrutiny of the Taliban’s morality police.Sources in humanitarian agencies have told us they are grappling to understand how the law should be interpreted but they believe it will make operations more difficult.