Iran’s Special Representative, Russia's Ambassador to Tehran Discuss Afghanistan

In a meeting with the Taliban minister of refugees, Pakistan's ambassador in Afghanistan, Obaid ur Rehman Nizamani, said that the perpetrators of such mistreatments are enemies of both countries.

In recent months, Pakistani police have arrested hundreds of Afghan migrants in Pakistan.

Last week, the Taliban Consulate General in Karachi announced that around 1,300 Afghan refugees were imprisoned in Pakistan's Sindh province for illegal stay in the country.

The writers of these letters have asked the UN Security Council to take immediate action to save Afghan women under the Taliban rule.

According to Razia Barakzai, one of the organisers of the campaign, in the letters, there are cases such as "targeted and continuous killings of women, stoning and beating up of women, sexual assaults, torture, and arbitrary arrests, forced and underage marriages, compulsory hijab, mistreatment, humiliation, and insulting of women”.

Other matters discussed in the letters have been the closure of girls' schools, the ban of women from stadiums and amusement parks, denying women the right to employment, travel, and political participation, and extensive violations of women's human rights.

Mujahid quoted Akhundzada as saying, "Those files in which all the sharia (Islamic law) conditions of hudud and qisas have been fulfilled, you are obliged to implement. This is the ruling of sharia, and my command, which is obligatory.”

Hudud refers to offences which, under Islamic law, certain types of punishment are mandated, while qisas translates as “retaliation in kind” -- effectively an eye for an eye. Hudud crimes include adultery -- and falsely accusing someone of it -- drinking alcohol, theft, kidnapping and highway robbery, apostasy, and rebellion.

Qisas covers murder and deliberate injury, among other things, but also allows for the families of victims to accept compensation in lieu of punishment.

The Taliban spokesperson said that Akhundzada in a meeting with the judges of the group delivered the message. However, the Taliban have not released any document that proves the leader of the group is alive.

These statements attributed to Akhundzada come two days after the Taliban flogged 20 people on various charges in Taloqan city of Takhar province after the Friday prayers.

The Taliban accused four of these men and women of having affair and beat each of them with 30 lashes.

Seven other girls were also flogged for not observing the hijab required by the Taliban and roaming in the city’s bazaar and nine other young men were flogged for accompanying these girls in the bazaar.

According to the sources, the baker had been tortured continuously during detention.

According to sources, the man, who owned a bakery in district 7 of Kabul, had been detained by the Taliban members during their visit to Logar province.

The body of the baker has been handed over to his family on Thursday at the Department of Public Health in Logar province.

According to a WFP report, the organisation donates one-month food packages or cash aid to the citizens who participate in their training courses.

Participants of the WFP training courses learn skills such as growing fruits and vegetables and marketing agricultural products.