Afghans Behind Instability in Pakistan, Evidence Submitted to Taliban, Says Pak Deputy FM

In a statement, the Taliban's National Standard Authority stressed that 13 tankers had been returned to Iran from Farah province’s Mil 78 border terminal on Tuesday and four tankers had been returned from Nimroz border terminals with Iran on Wednesday.

The Taliban’s office added that it has recently increased its assessments of the quality of fuel imported from Iran.

Earlier, the Taliban had announced that they had rejected another 40 tankers of low-quality fuel from Iran.

This group has previously too often announced that it had returned low-quality imported Iranian petroleum products back to the country.

The petroleum products needed by the Afghan market have been mainly imported from neighbouring countries including Iran, Pakistan and Central Asian countries.

According to Salajegheh, the Taliban has not accepted Iran’s repeated calls to engage in dialogue on the issue.

According to 1973 water treaty between Iran and Afghanistan, annually Afghanistan is legally obligated to release 820 million cubic meters of water from the Helmand River to Iran.

According to Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA), Salajegheh told reporters on Wednesday, "We have requested the Afghan ruling body to hold a meeting several times, but unfortunately they did not accept it. In addition, the Minister of Energy was mandated by the government to follow up on the issue."

The Iranian Vice-President stressed that there is enough water in Afghanistan and that the Taliban must release 850 million cubic meters of water to Iran every year.

The head of Iran's Department of Environment emphasised that the Taliban must comply with the 1973 water treaty between the two countries.

Referring to the rainfall in Afghanistan, he added that enough water has entered the Helmand River and he hopes that the Taliban will allow this water to pass through the Kamal Khan Dam so that it does not go in another direction.

The Taliban officials said since the beginning of the digitisation process, electronic identity cards have been distributed to 10.7 million people across the country.

Taliban officials added that last year, the group distributed 1.5 million electronic ID cards to men and issued nearly one million electronic ID cards for women in Afghanistan.

According to the Taliban-controlled Bakhtar news agency, the Taliban claimed that as part of the anti-corruption efforts, in the past year, they have arrested forty illegal brokers. According to Taliban officials in the Statistics and Information Authority, the group investigated 130 cases of administrative corruption in one year, because of which four corruption cases have been handed over to the judicial bodies of the group and they have also fired nearly forty employees of the Taliban body.

The rights group added that in the last two days, 11 Baluch and one Afghan citizen have been executed in Iran.

According to Hengaw, a prisoner from Behbahan was also executed on Tuesday at Shiban prison in Ahvaz city.

According to the rights group, in one of the latest cases on Tuesday, an Afghan citizen named "Masoud Ishaqzehi" was executed in connection with drug crimes in Iran.

Last month, the Islamic Republic of Iran also publicly executed two Afghans for organising the attack on the "Shah Cheragh" shrine, in Shirzad city.

Zia Ahmad Takal, Deputy Spokesman of the Taliban’s Foreign Ministry, said that the two sides discussed various political, economic, and commercial issues.

According to Takal, during the meeting, al-Qahtani called the current situation in Afghanistan “satisfying”.

The Qatari envoy also said that the countries of the region and the world should engage in a "constructive manner with Afghanistan and not miss the available opportunities."

So far, the Qatari foreign ministry has not released any statement about the meeting of the country’s envoy with the Taliban’s foreign minister.