The Taliban must immediately reverse its ban on female aid workers so that vital humanitarian efforts in poverty-stricken Afghanistan can continue, warned the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) on Sunday. Jan Egeland visited Kabul this week to plead with the hardline group to overturn its December decree which barred Afghan women from participating in NGO operations. The order was issued because of alleged breaches of the Taliban’s strict dress codes for women. The NRC is one of four major humanitarian organisations that temporarily suspended their Afghanistan missions af…