Afghan Girls Gather Infront of Kabul University in Symbolic Protest Against Taliban’s Ban

Expressing gratitude to Iran, the Taliban said that "such positive steps" will strengthen the cooperation between the two countries.

The Taliban have not provided any details about the identity and charges pressed against these prisoners and there is no clear figure on how many Afghans have been imprisoned in Iran.

After the Afghan embassy in Tehran has been handed over to the Taliban, several Afghan citizens who fled to Iran out of fear of the Taliban are worried about their safety.

Some of them have said that the Taliban may now easily be able to track them inside Iran.

After the fall of the previous government, according to Iranian officials, more than one million Afghan citizens have immigrated to Iran.

He criticised those who stressed on accepting and tolerating the Taliban as a reality of Afghanistan. Atmar said, "Accepting the Taliban will not lead to peace and stability." According to him, depriving the people of freedom and basic rights will destabilise the Taliban government in Afghanistan.

The former foreign minister of Afghanistan was speaking at the German Institute of Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin. He tried to highlight "intra-Afghan dialogues" as the way forward for the stabilisation of Afghanistan and addressing the security and humanitarian crises in the country.

Atmar called the armed resistance against the Taliban an "extreme view". He added that “an extreme view is war and the use of force against the Taliban until their complete defeat. This view is wrong.” According to the former foreign minister of Afghanistan, Afghans experienced the war over the last two decades and that didn’t produce the end result that they had envisioned.

Unlike other Afghan politicians that criticised the Doha agreement, he optimistically said that the agreement has provided the necessary legal framework to start a dialogue between the Taliban and other Afghan political groups.

Atmar did not mention that the Taliban has no intention to hold dialogue with important political actors of Afghanistan.

The Taliban has urged other Afghan groups to accept their reign of Afghanistan and has severely restricted and surveyed politicians such as Hamid Karzai and Dr Abdullah Abdullah, who currently reside inside Afghanistan.

The former foreign minister emphasised that the legitimacy of the government is not possible without democracy and respect for the basic rights of the people, therefore, a new government must be formed in Afghanistan with the presence of the Taliban.

The Taliban said that a member of this group had been injured during the operation against the IS-K fighters.

This Taliban-controlled news agency said that three Kalashnikovs, five rifles, a camera, and fifteen mobile phone devices have been obtained in the operation.

Meanwhile, on Friday evening, local sources reported explosions heard in Herat city. No further details were revealed about the explosion.

The sources said that on his first day of arrest, Taliban members had tortured him and broken his neck and hands. According to sources from Herat, the man had died due to the Taliban’s torture.

In the photos obtained by Afghanistan International, bullet marks can be seen in the body and legs of the corpse.

According to sources, the Taliban had arrested the younger brother of the dead man in Herat too.

It is not clear why the Taliban arrested and tortured this man in Herat province. The group has not commented on the incident so far.

The rights watchdog called for an independent strategy and stated that tangible measures are needed to make the Taliban accountable.

The organisation added that this independent investigative special mission can even help the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Afghanistan with his work.

Amnesty stated that it is required to follow the facts and circumstances of crimes and human rights violations and identify the perpetrators.

While highlighting the blatant human rights abuses such as systematic violations of the rights of Afghan women and girls and the continuation of Taliban crimes in Panjshir, it added that the Taliban has often signalled that it is unwilling to hold impartial investigation into human right abuses by it.

The statement also documented cases of arbitrary arrests, executions, torture and kidnappings by the Taliban, stressing that since the Taliban's dominance, the human rights of at-risk populations, including women, girls and religious and ethnic minorities, have been widely violated.

On the issue of minority, Amnesty stated that it has independently conducted investigation into the Hazara massacre in Afghanistan without any help from the Taliban and hence, the perpetrators are yet to be brought to justice.