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The US Secretary of State stressed, "Qatar's support to the people of Afghanistan has strengthened our partnership."

Meanwhile, the US State Department has said that the efforts of the US and Qatar to transfer Afghan citizens to the US are currently ongoing.

Several Afghan citizens are currently in Qatar and waiting for their transfer to the US.

Rashid added that these protests are internal issues of the respective countries and Afghan nationals should not participate in them.

The Taliban's call to Afghan refugees comes while Iranian citizens have been holding nationwide protests for several weeks across Iran.

However so far, the Iranian government has not spoken about the participation of Afghan immigrants in the demonstrations.

On Tuesday, Iran's judiciary announced that the government of Iran had arrested 40 foreign citizens in connection with the country’s recent protests. However, it has not revealed more information about the identity of the arrested individuals.

However, the traffic directorate stressed that traffic incidents have decreased by five percent as compared to last year.

Based on the statistics of the traffic directorate, in the last eight months, about 1,600 traffic incidents have been recorded in Afghanistan, as a result of which 700 people, including 72 women and 182 children, have died.

Lack of standard roads, high speed, and careless driving have been the main reasons for traffic incidents in Afghanistan.

On Monday, the United Nations announced on the International Day of Remembrance of the victims of road accidents that more than 1.3 million people die in traffic accidents in the world every year.

After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, Afghanistan's health sector has faced serious challenges. Earlier, the World Health Organisation had reported the collapse of Afghanistan's health sector.

Most of the health centers in remote areas of Afghanistan have been closed or they cannot provide the health services needed by the people due to the lack of facilities and medicine.

During winter, many Afghan citizens, especially in remote and mountainous areas, are deprived of access to health services.

Decker demanded the release of human rights activist, Zarifa Yaqoobi and her colleagues.

Yaqoobi and her four colleagues had been arrested by the Taliban when they wanted to announce the formation of a new protest movement in Kabul.

Earlier, Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Afghanistan, had too, said that Yaqoobi and her four colleagues had been arbitrarily detained and must be released immediately.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson of the Taliban, had earlier, accused the activists of "taking orders from outside Afghanistan".

The Taliban have recently increased the arrest of female protesters in Afghanistan.