2 Days After Iranian President’s Warning, Taliban Inaugurates Bakhshabad Dam in Farah

According to the Uzbek media outlets, both sides emphasised on the need for the international community to remain focused on Afghanistan in order to prevent the country from becoming a source of security threats.

Providing humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan had also been one of the other topics of discussion among the British and Uzbek senior officials.

According to media reports, Uzbekistan and the UK agreed to continue the engagement of the representatives between the two countries regarding the issues of the region and Afghanistan.

At the meeting of the leaders of China and Central Asia, the Kazakh president emphasised that the humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan must be channeled under the supervision of the United Nations.

The leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan were present at the China-Central Asia meeting and discussed the expansion of cooperation between the regional countries.

According to TASS news agency, the president of Kazakhstan believed that the current situation in Afghanistan is dangerous for all the regional countries. He spoke about the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and emphasised on the importance of engagement of the international community to address the humanitarian situation of the country.

Tokayev said that Kazakhstan supports China's peaceful foreign policy towards Central Asia and is ready to cooperate with Beijing with the aim of regional stability and global security.

Xi Jinping, the president of China, announced at this summit that Beijing is ready to expand cooperation with Central Asia.

According to Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) Qomi added, "Taliban officials know that if they want to establish a stable government in Afghanistan, they must have constructive engagement with their neighbours."

Verbal tensions have emerged on Iran’s water rights from Helmand River after Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi issued a warning to the Taliban on Thursday during a visit to Sistan and Baluchistan province of the country.

During his visit, Raisi warned the Taliban, "Take my words seriously so that you don't complain later."

The president of Iran threatened the Taliban in an unprecedented tone and said, "I want to tell the rulers of Afghanistan not to take my words as normal, to take them very seriously; I warn the authorities and rulers of Afghanistan to give the rights of the people and the region of Sistan and Baluchistan immediately."

Following these statements, the Taliban issued a rather harsh statement and asked the Iranian authorities to refrain from "provocative statements".

However, now the verbal tensions have taken on a much more serious dimension and an Iranian member of Parliament has pointed to the Taliban as saying that Iranian officials are not Ashraf Ghani, the former Afghan president who fled the country, and Iranian forces are not "fugitive American soldiers".

According to Hashmat Ghani, Ibrahim Haqqani’s people forced Ali Latifi to record a video confession saying that he drank wine with him on Thursday night.

The Taliban has released the video of the journalist's confession. In this video, in which it is not yet clear under what conditions it has been recorded, the Afghan-American journalist said that he drank wine with Hashmat Ghani at his house.

The reporter added that the Taliban arrested him after he left Hashmat Ghani's house in Kabul.

In a call to Afghanistan International, Hashmat Ghani said that the Taliban arrested this journalist after meeting him in the Darul Aman area near Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's house and forced him to confess.

Ghani added that the Taliban is doing this to harass him. He emphasised that he is willing to take a blood test to prove his innocence.

Hashmat Ghani emphasised that Ibrahim Haqqani took possession of Ashraf Ghani's house and did not leave the house despite the order of the Taliban leader and cabinet.

According to Heshmat Ghani, for 18 months, Ibrahim Haqqani has been in Ashraf Ghani's house in Kabul and not only does he not leave this house, but also causes problems in Logar and Nangarhar for the Ghani family’s farmers and lands.

In a video message last year, Hashmat Ghani had accused Ibrahim Haqqani of usurping Ashraf Ghani's house. The Taliban officials have not officially commented on this matter so far.

Iranian officials have not yet given details about the execution of Afghan citizens in the country.

IRH said in a report that Suleiman Reshad, along with three other prisoners, had been sentenced to "retribution" and their sentences were executed on Thursday.

The human rights group added that the Afghan citizen spent four years in the prison of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

However, Hengaw rights group has not given any details about the identity of the seven Afghan citizens who have been executed in Iran in the last five months.

The Islamic Republic has recently started a wave of execution of prisoners across Iran.

The country's judiciary announced on Friday that Majid Kazemi, Saeed Yaghoubi and Saleh Mirhashemi, three protesters imprisoned in what Persian media have dubbed the ‘Esfahan (Isfahan) House’ case, have been executed.

Earlier, Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights also reported that the Islamic Republic executed at least 14 prisoners in various Iranian prisons on Thursday.