Despite Iran's Criticism, Taliban Claims Afghanistan Not A Drug Threat

According to the Taliban, they also promised to build a well-equipped hospital.

The Office of Taliban’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs reported on Monday, about Baradar's meeting with a number of investors and healthcare specialists from South Africa.

These investors stated that they would use advanced technology to extract and process Afghanistan's minerals.

According to the Taliban, South African healthcare specialists promised to support Afghanistan's healthcare sector by constructing a well-equipped and standard hospital.

The Taliban mentioned that foreign companies are active in the mining sector but did not provide transparent information about these companies.

On Tuesday, the court said in a statement that the woman was lashed 39 times.

The Taliban has not disclosed the identity of the woman, but mentioned that the punishment was issued by the court of Obe district in Herat city and was carried out after being confirmed by the Supreme Court.

Despite opposition from human rights organisations, the Taliban continues to carry out public and corporal punishments on citizens.

In a note on X, Jalali emphasised that they are "doomed to fail”.

He added that this "aimless group no longer has any buyers in the political market, and no one is willing to bet on the hollow words of these burnt-out figures."

The fourth Vienna meeting, attended by dozens of leaders and politicians opposing the Taliban, has been held to discuss the future of Afghanistan.

Senior Taliban officials are yet to make explicit comments about this meeting.

The two groups claimed that seven Taliban fighters were killed in these attacks.

On Monday, the National Resistance Front wrote on X that they had attacked a Taliban outpost in the Saray Laghman area in Kabul's ninth security district, resulting in the deaths of two Taliban members and injuring one.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front also posted a video on X stating that their attack on a Taliban checkpoint at the Alauddin intersection killed five Taliban members and wounded two others.

Independent sources have not yet confirmed the figures reported by these two anti-Taliban groups.

Several Kabul residents told Afghanistan International that they heard two loud explosions in the Darul Aman and Karte Naw areas of Kabul on Monday evening.

The ministry stated that it has begun the process of registering citizens' mobile phones by distributing forms among the public.

Abdul Mateen Qani, Taliban’s spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, wrote on X social media platform on Monday, that registering mobile phones "has been undertaken to protect and secure citizens' mobile phones”.

Qani wrote, "The process of registering people's mobile phones and distributing forms for this purpose has been ongoing for a year now."

The spokesperson for the Taliban’s Ministry of Interior stated that the group plans to implement mobile phone registration across all regions of the country in the future.

Although the Taliban has claimed that this process is aimed at protecting people's phones and has so far recovered 704 stolen phones through this method, critics argue that registering mobile phones could provide the Taliban with greater control over citizens.