Photographers Must Observe Sharia Principles, Says Taliban’s Religious Police

The Taliban's Ministry of Interior announced that Sheikh Abdul Naser Bamiyani, Seyyed Sufi Gardizi, and Ahmad Hossein Sangardost, have met Haqqani and praised the performance of the Taliban's Ministry of Interior and assured that "they will put all efforts to strengthen the Taliban rule”.

Taliban’s senior leaders assured ensuring the safety of Hazara people, even though after the group’s takeover of Afghanistan, attacks against the Hazara community have increased.

Hazaras are one of the most vulnerable ethnic groups who have experienced brutal attacks by Islamic State-Khurasan, the Taliban, and other radical groups in the recent three decades in Afghanistan.

He added that the Taliban enjoy "torturing and killing people" in Afghanistan.

According to the NRF spokesperson, the Taliban have taken Afghan people as hostages.

Ahmadi shared a video clip of shootings of the Taliban on his Twitter account and said that the Taliban and Mullah Hibatullah, the hidden leader of the group, "will face justice on the day of freedom”.

The video, which has been retweeted by Ahmadi, shows that while the crowd is scattered outside the airport, the Taliban members shoot from inside a car. As they shoot, they laugh and shout, "Are you going to Turkey?"

On Wednesday evening, sources reported that the Taliban were shooting around the Kabul airport. The Taliban said that a "rumour" had spread among the people that the group was sending people to Turkey to help earthquake victims.

Later, the Taliban said that they had dispersed people from around the Kabul airport.

Earlier, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) had stressed that the Taliban's announcements about Kabul receiving aid cash packages had been "useless and misleading".

Over the past year and a half, almost every week, millions of dollars in cash have been received by the Taliban in Kabul.

The Taliban's access to aid money has been a major concern.

After growing concerns about the Taliban’s access to aid money, UNAMA had announced that the cash aid transferred by the United Nations to Afghanistan has been kept in the accounts of the UN in a private bank.

UNAMA also said that these donations are used by United Nations agencies for humanitarian aid to assist millions of Afghans.

According to UNAMA, the most important reason for the transfer of cash to Afghanistan is the disruption of international bank transfers and liquidity issues since August 2021.

UNAMA had previously said that since December 2021, approximately 1.8 billion dollars in cash has been transferred to Afghanistan to carry out the activities of the UN organisation and its partners.

After the Taliban’s ban on women's work in non-governmental organisations, the transfer of cash packages to Afghanistan had been suspended.

Earlier, OCHA had announced that in 2023, at least 17 million people in Afghanistan will face severe hunger and another six million people will be at the emergency-level of food insecurity.

According to OCHA, during the first few months of 2023, the economic situation in Afghanistan will be dire.

After the Taliban’s recent ban on the work of Afghan women in aid agencies and international organisations, these groups have stressed that aid distribution has become difficult, particularly for women and children in Afghanistan.

The Iranian senior security official discussed Afghanistan at the meeting of National Security Advisors of regional countries in Moscow on Wednesday.

Shamkhani stressed that without discussing how to form an inclusive government in Afghanistan, Iran believes that imposing any kind of political system by resorting to foreign intervention or domestic confrontation will only increase instability and insecurity in the country.

Shamkhani referred to the direct impacts of the security situation of Afghanistan on Iran and said that "security, peace, stability and progress in Afghanistan is our main priority”.

The Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran explained that the collective efforts of Afghanistan’s neighbours alone cannot be the foundation for lasting peace and stability in Afghanistan.

He added that the will and concrete actions of the Taliban and other Afghan actors inside the country can be the way out from the vicious cycle of instability in the South Asian state.

After taking control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban formed a caretaker government consisting of its own members and refused the participation of other ethnic and political groups in the government. Since then, all stakeholders have asked the Taliban to form an inclusive government with the presence of all ethnic groups and women of Afghanistan, but the group has so far ignored these calls.