Technical Issues Regarding Iran’s Water Rights Solved by Taliban, Says Iranian Diplomat

Hanayesh sustained injuries to his foot and head and is currently receiving treatment in a hospital.

Based on statements from the journalist's family, the Afghan Journalists in Exile described his condition as dire and stated that he is awaiting surgery at the hospital.

Images of Hanayesh, showing him bloodied on a hospital bed, have also been circulating on social media.

Authorities in Islamabad have not yet commented on this matter.

In a statement, it had been mentioned that Hanayesh is the head of "Kahkashan Media Network". He, along with his family, is awaiting a US visa in Pakistan. The Afghan Journalists in Exile also stated that this journalist has been a reporter for Radio Azadi in Afghanistan for about two decades.

Afghan journalists in Exile have urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and destination countries to expedite the processing of immigration cases for Afghan journalists.

The statement said that there are reports that Afghan journalists and media personnel are even more vulnerable in third countries than in their own country, and the reason for this has been attributed to the diplomatic presence of the Taliban in those countries.

This institute stated that Afghan journalists in third countries have previously been targeted for assassination and assaults. For instance, in recent weeks, Mirwais Khawarin, former head of the Afghan Senate television, was severely injured due to an attack by armed individuals in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Following the takeover of the Taliban in August 2021, a significant number of journalists left for third countries like Pakistan and Iran to pursue their immigration cases to European and North American countries.

He added that this attack was conducted from bases in Pakistan. Sources also informed Afghanistan International that 12 individuals lost their lives in this attack.

Afghanistan International received a letter indicating that the Taliban leader convened an emergency meeting to discuss the drone attack in the Giru district and its surveillance.

On March 25, the Taliban's governor's office in Ghazni province had reported that, following the explosion of a leftover shell from a Soviet attack in Zardan village of the Giru district, five women and four children were killed.

However, sources speaking to Afghanistan International rejected the Taliban’s statement and said that the incident resulted from a drone strike. The strike killed 12 individuals, including three employees of the Taliban’s Ministry of Mines, among them Matiullah Bakhtzoi's son, a member of the ministry's evaluation commission, two Taliban fighters, four women, and three children.

Following the publication of this news, Nabil posted on X social media platform, stating that the target of the attack were members of AQIS (Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent) group. According to him, AQIS is a branch of Al-Qaeda that aims to fight Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, with the goal of establishing an “Islamic Caliphate”.

The front stated that in this attack, a Taliban member had been killed and two others got wounded.

In a statement on X social media platform, NRF wrote that the attack took place at 8:20 PM.

The Taliban has not yet reacted to the NRF’s claim.

He mentioned that Ukraine and NATO are trying to tell Russia that the assault on Moscow could potentially be the work of the ISIS branch based in Afghanistan.

Following the armed assault on a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow, resulting in numerous casualties, ISIS claimed responsibility for it. US officials attributed this attack to ISIS-Khorasan, situated in Afghanistan.

Subsequently, Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, attributed the attack on Crocus City Hall to "radical Islamists”.

At the nineteenth meeting of National Security Advisors of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Secretary of Russia's National Security Council said that the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall was well organised. He emphasised that the attack was accompanied by "broad and pre-organised Western media coverage”.

The Russian official added that the swift identification of the supporters of the terrorist attack in Crocus City is very important.

Regarding ISIS' claim of responsibility for the attack on Crocus City Hall, he said that both ISIS and other terrorist groups have been created by the United States

Previously, Putin had attributed the attack to "radical Islamists," whom he described as adversaries of the Islamic world for centuries due to their ideology.

He further remarked that the United States is employing various channels to persuade that Ukraine played no part in this "bloody terrorist" attack, insisting instead that the perpetrators were "followers of Islam" and members of the proscribed ISIS organisation in Russia.

He also stressed on the need for ongoing assistance to prevent the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

Tokayev raised this issue on Wednesday at the nineteenth meeting of National Security Advisors of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). This two-day meeting began on Tuesday in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan has stated that important international issues within the scope of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's responsibilities, such as collaborative counterterrorism measures, addressing separatism, extremism, and combating illegal drug trafficking, will be addressed during this meeting.

Additionally, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan emphasised that combating organised crimes and fostering cooperation in international information security are key agenda items for this meeting.