London - (AFP) - Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven countries on Thursday called on the Taliban to "urgently rescind" the ban on women working in non-governmental organizations in Afghanistan, according to a joint statement released by the British Foreign Office.

The foreign ministers said they were "deeply concerned that the Taliban's reckless and dangerous order to ban female staff from national and international NGOs places millions of Afghans, who depend on humanitarian aid for survival, at risk."