Pakistan’s Defense Minister And Spymaster Meet Taliban Officials in Kabul

The exact location of death of this senior IS-K member has not mentioned in the IS-K statement.

Before joining the IS-K, Abu Usman Al-Kashmiri had been a member of Harakat Al-Mujahedin in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. He, then, joined Al-Qaeda and after a while in 2015, he announced that he had joined the ISIS.

Al-Kashmiri is believed to have been the first Amir of the "Indian province" of ISIS.

Over the past few months, the Taliban has reported numerous clashes with ISIS members in different provinces of Afghanistan.

Mohammad Reza, Narges Sadat's husband, urged the United Nations and the European Union to act for the release of the women’s rights activist.

Sadat, 23, had been detained by the Taliban from the Pole- Sorkh area of Kabul.

Sadat's husband told Afghanistan International that they have contacted the Taliban intelligence offices several times, but the Taliban have ignored their requests regarding information about his wife.

Mohammad Reza said that his mother and sister have contacted the Taliban intelligence headquarters in Kabul, but haven’t received any feedback.

The Taliban didn’t comment about the detention of the women’s rights activist.

The group has cracked down against women rights activists in Afghanistan extensively for the past year.

It has been three days since the Taliban have closed the Torkham border crossing.

According to officials, after the closure of the border and gun fight between the Taliban and Pakistan border forces, the two sides have been in talks to reopen the border.

Sarhadi said, "Long queues of heavy trucks have formed on both sides of the border."

Taliban officials said that Pakistan has not fulfilled its commitments regarding the smooth transit of Afghan travellers, and patients seeking treatment in the country.

The Pakistani government has not publicly commented on the matter.

The Taliban have stressed that these new districts have been formed to provide better government services to remote and underserved areas.

The Taliban's Prime Minister office has ordered all ministries to activate their offices in these districts to provide better services to the people.

No further details about the names and locations of these districts have been provided by the Taliban.

Previously, Afghanistan had 364 districts in 34 provinces.

The Taliban have said that the cash package has been handed over to a commercial bank in Kabul.

While the Iranian rial and Pakistani rupee have lost value in recent days, the value of the Afghani currency has remained stable in the market. Observers believe that one of the main reasons for the stable value of Afghani is the cash packages being delivered as humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.

In more than one and a half years since the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, over 1.8 billion dollars of cash packages have been delivered to Kabul on a weekly basis.

Sending millions of dollars of "humanitarian" aid to Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban has been met with support and criticisms of many Afghans.

Critics believe that the Taliban benefit from international humanitarian aid. Earlier, Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front, had said that the Taliban regime would fall if the weekly cash delivery to Afghanistan had been cut off.

However, the United Nations has said it is necessary to save millions of needy people in Afghanistan through the humanitarian aid.