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He also stressed that cooperation and engagement between Pakistan and the Taliban is necessary and asked the group to fulfil their commitments.

On Thursday, Pakistani media quoted Pakistan's foreign minister as saying that if the Taliban want diplomatic recognition, they should pay attention to international concerns.

After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) increased its attacks in Pakistan.

Pakistan’s army has repeatedly emphasised that TTP has a safe haven in Afghanistan and organises its attacks against the Pakistani government from there.

Afghan and Pakistani Taliban have enjoyed close relations. In the past months, the Afghan Taliban hosted peace talks between the Pakistan army and the TTP. However, these talks have not yielded any results.

However, reliable sources confirmed to Afghanistan International recently that a decree was issued by Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, Taliban’s leader, that war in Pakistan is prohibited and "haram".

Mufti Abdul Rauf, a member of the Supreme Court of the Taliban, also announced that "Afghanistan’s people jihad against other countries is absolutely not permissible".

Afghanistan International's sources said that Mufti Abdul Rauf's fatwa had been issued under pressure from Pakistan.

It had been previously reported that Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban, called the war in Pakistan illegitimate in a fatwa that high-ranking officials of the group do not want to make public.

Pakistani authorities asked Akhundzada to issue a public fatwa and declare war in Pakistan as haram (forbidden).

Reliable sources have told Afghanistan International that the video clip of Mufti Abdul Rauf, a member of the Taliban Supreme Court, has been published in line with Islamabad's demands.

In this video clip, this member of the Taliban’s Supreme Court, implicitly confirms that Mullah Hibatullah has issued a fatwa against the war in Pakistan.

Mufti Abdul Rauf said that he has received messages from many members of the Taliban who have declared their readiness for jihad in Pakistan.

In the video, he said, “We don't care whether Jihad is ongoing somewhere or not. Our people are not responsible for Jihad abroad [Afghanistan].”

Earlier, Pakistani media reports had also stated that at the request of Islamabad, the leader of the Taliban has declared war and attacks abroad, including in Pakistan, as "forbidden".

According to these reports, Pakistan's special representative for Afghanistan, during his recent trip to Kabul, asked the Taliban that Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada declare war in their country as forbidden.

Khalilzad told Afghanistan International that from his point of view, the current situation in Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban has both positive and negative aspects.

According to Khalilzad, one of the positive aspects is that "fewer Afghans are killed now as compared to the past, people were tired of war and the US was also tired of killing Afghans”.

Khalilzad said that the situation of Afghanistan's economy is not good under the rule of the Taliban, but he immediately emphasised that the economy of Afghanistan was not good during the American-backed government either.

He rejected the opinion that the people inside Afghanistan are not witnessing improvement in the situation. Khalilzad said, “I do not agree that the opinion of the Afghan people is like this. There are different opinions -if all Afghans had the same opinion, these controversies would not have happened.”

In this interview, which will be published by Afghanistan International on August 15, the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul, Khalilzad stressed that depriving Afghan women and girls of the right to education and work is one of the negative points of the Taliban's government and said that if the group goes ahead with such approaches, it can not win the international community’s support.

NRF stated that the killed Taliban members included an intelligence officer of the Taliban’s 217 Corps for Farkhar district.

In a statement, NRF stressed that none of its forces had been harmed in the operation.

This anti-Taliban front added that it also carried out an operation on the Taliban outpost in Nuristan province on Wednesday and said that the number of casualties in this attack is not yet clear.

The National Resistance Front has intensified its attacks against the Taliban in recent days.

In a press conference on Wednesday, Miller also said that the United States deeply values its relations with Pakistan, including on the issue of counterterrorism.

"We have supported Pakistan with assistance to help with counterterrorism, with other law enforcement activities, and we’ll continue to do so", said Matthew Miller.

In recent months, Pakistan has seen an increase in attacks against the country's security forces and the political parties.

The responsibility of these attacks has been mainly taken by ISIS and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

Recently, a suicide bombing targeted a political gathering of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam in the Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and left 63 killed.

ISIS-K took responsibility for the attack.

After this attack, some Pakistani officials, including Asim Munir, the Chief of Army Staff, accused Afghan citizens of participating in terrorist attacks in Pakistan.

Taliban has denied these statements of Pakistani officials.