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He said that the Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, is the only person who is isolated and denies meeting people.

In an interview with the Center for Research and Security Studies, Durrani said, "21 embassies in Kabul and 16 embassies, including the US embassy in Doha," are in contact with the Taliban.

Regarding global engagement with the Taliban, he said that it's not the world that doesn't want to have ties with the group, rather it's Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada who doesn't see people.

Pakistan’s special envoy stressed that except for Akhundzada, other Taliban leaders are in touch with the international community.

Although Durrani had been sceptical about the reports that Akhundzada had met with the Qatari Prime Minister in Kandahar, he added that if this meeting is true, it is a sign of change in the Taliban leader's interaction with other countries.

No photo of the Taliban leader has been published yet, but the Taliban publishes news of his meeting with the group’s officials.

Regarding the recognition of the Taliban, Pakistan's special representative for Afghanistan said that the decision will be taken by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

Durrani called Pakistan a victim of Afghanistan's developments and said that thousands of people enter Pakistan from Afghanistan without going through legal procedures every day and linked that to instability inside Afghanistan.

Shaheen said that the Taliban wants to address the issue of women's education based on “Islamic principles”, but stressed that the conditions of the international community are not acceptable to the group.

In an interview with the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan National Radio Television, Shaheen said that during their meetings with foreign envoys, they see that the international community is “slowly accepting the realities of Afghanistan”.

The new statement on the right to education and work of Afghan women and girls comes even though previously the Taliban had said that they would draw a new programme for the education of Afghan girls in secondary or higher education. It has been more than 600 days since schools for girls have been shut down across Afghanistan.

Earlier, Reuters news agency reported that Qatari Prime Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani had met with Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and discussed the education of girls and women's work during his visit to Kandahar.

According to our sources, the Taliban’s intelligence agency has seized weapons, a bulletproof vehicle, and phones of this self-proclaimed "general".

Mobeen has previously worked as a spokesperson to the Taliban’s police chief of Kabul and has been considered a controversial figure of the Taliban on social media.

Over the past week, he appeared on Twitter and said that he regretted working with the Taliban as the spokesman.

Mobeen also criticised the Taliban and termed the group’s government as "Mullahcracy”. He insisted that professionals had to take government jobs and serve the people.

Previously, he had also been arrested after criticising Mullah Fazl-ur-Rehman, a political and religious leader in Pakistan, who has close ties with the Afghan Taliban.

After Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi warned the Taliban about Iran’s water rights from the Helmand River, Mobeen filled a yellow barrel, which is considered a symbol of the Taliban’s hand-made bombs, and said that he would send one barrel of water to the Iranian president.

The video clip of Mobeen with the barrel had been circulated on social media among Afghans and Iranians and attracted wide attention in both countries.

Therefore, the news of his arrest has also been reflected in Iranian media as an anti-Iranian figure among the Taliban.

Islamabad police officials confirmed to Afghanistan International that all 175 Afghans detained in Pakistan have been transferred to a prison in Rawalpindi.

In its earlier statement, Pakistani police did not mention that all these 175 people are Afghans.

According to the police, these people have been accused of violating the law based on Article 14 of Pakistan's Foreign Nationals Registration Act.

Several Afghan refugees informed Afghanistan International on Monday that the Pakistani police entered the houses of Afghan immigrants for inspection and arrested them.

According to a refugee representative, who did not want to be named in the report, some of the detainees are women and children.

In the past two years, when a wave of Afghan refugees entered Pakistan after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, Islamabad has repeatedly detained these Afghans.

These migrants have said that the UN agencies and human rights groups have not done enough to protect their rights and prevent their persecution.

According to the sources, after the Taliban imposed a ban on music in Afghanistan, Nuristani continued to live as an ordinary citizen in his village in Nuristan province.

Relatives of the singer said that he had "no personal enmity”, and the motive behind his murder is still unclear.

The local Taliban authorities have not reacted to the news of the murder of the Afghan singer.

Muslim Nuristani appeared in local media inside Afghanistan before the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban and performed local songs of Nuristan province.