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According to them, Kohistani has a heart disease and must take medication daily.

According to sources, the Taliban's intelligence agency arrested Jawed Kohistani from the Sara e Shamali area of Kabul on Thursday, September 26. The Taliban have not yet officially commented on the matter.

Two days after the arrest of Jawed Kohistani, some of his friends and relatives told Afghanistan International on Saturday that despite efforts and follow-up, they have not yet been able to find out about his health and detention status.

Relatives of Kohistani said that some Taliban officials have confirmed his arrest by the group's intelligence, but have not commented on his whereabouts. They added that he had previously undergone heart surgery at a hospital in Pakistan and has to take medication several times a day.

Friends and relatives of Jawed Kohistani also added that he has not had any political-military activities for at least the past three years and preferred to remain in the country after the fall of the government.

According to people close to Kohistani, the conditions of the Taliban's intelligence prisons and their interrogation method are dangerous for a heart patient who cannot take medication.

Kohistani is a well-known political analyst who appeared in many debates in the domestic media in the past two decades before the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. He is a critic of the former government and one of the few who did not leave Afghanistan after the Taliban entered Kabul in August 2021.

The Taliban's Minister of Mines, Hidayatullah Badri, also went to Moscow to attend the meeting.

In a photo published by Bakhtar News Agency on Friday, September 28, the faces and bodies of the four women participating in the ceremony were censored.

This comes as the Taliban's Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has published the presence of the group's representatives at the Russian International Energy Summit with uncensored photos.

The meeting was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and representatives of at least 50 other countries.

Earlier, Taliban media had censored the faces of the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson; Nazgul Usenova, Kyrgyzstan's Deputy Minister of Energy, and Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary-General's Representative for Afghanistan.

The Taliban have considered women's voices to be awrah (intimate) and have made their dress code compulsory. The group has also banned the publication of human images in some provinces.

"No foreign group is allowed to operate on Afghan soil," he said. Earlier, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told the UN General Assembly that "terrorist" groups such as al-Qaeda, ISIS and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are currently present and active in Afghanistan and pose a threat to the region and the world.

Sharif called on the Taliban to fight terrorist groups, especially those responsible for deadly attacks in Pakistan.
Islamabad blames the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for deadly attacks and increased insecurity in the country, accusing the Taliban of supporting and harbouring the TTP.

The Taliban has repeatedly rejected Pakistan's claim that the TTP is present and active in Afghanistan, claiming that Afghanistan is not a threat to anyone.

Hamdullah Fitrat also stressed that the Taliban will not allow Afghan soil to be used against other countries.

However, numerous reports from international organisations confirm the presence and activities of terrorist groups in Afghanistan.

Earlier, the United Nations Security Council warned in a report about the alignment between Al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban on Afghan soil.

The Pakistani Taliban, with the support of the Afghan Taliban, have expanded their attacks on Pakistani soil, and TTP camps, with the support and participation of al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban, are focused on training local Afghan fighters and the Pakistani Taliban, the council said.

The UN Security Council report states that the Pakistani Taliban are using weapons left behind in Afghanistan to target Pakistan's border and military posts.

Abbas Araghchi said that neighbouring countries would not allow terrorism and extremism to grow in Afghanistan. Iran's Foreign Ministry said that the meeting ended with a 19-point statement. The participating countries have not yet issued this statement.

The Russian Foreign Ministry also wrote that the two sides compared their approaches to resolving Afghan issues and emphasised that there is no alternative to establishing relations and partnership with the current Afghan authorities (the Taliban).

According to a statement by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iran's foreign minister criticised the 20-year presence of the United States and NATO in Afghanistan and blamed the current situation in Afghanistan on the "shameful" withdrawal of the United States and its allies.

Abbas Araghchi said that by withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2021, the United States and its allies "left all the turmoil for Afghanistan and its neighbours”.

He added that the United States and NATO are responsible for many of the problems that Afghanistan and its neighbours are currently facing.

He stressed that terrorist groups, especially ISIS branches, are taking advantage of the current situation to gain more influence. Stressing on the need to cooperate with the Taliban to fight terrorism, Araghchi added, "We must strengthen our cooperation in the field of fighting terrorism and form a united front against these destructive forces. "Our message must be clear: terrorism has no place in Afghanistan and our region."

The Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran has said that there are more than six million Afghans in Iran and that the Islamic Republic has been severely affected by the flow of refugees and illegal immigrants.

He has emphasised that with the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the massive migration from Afghanistan has put enormous pressure on Iran.

Araghchi has claimed that Iran spends more than $10 billion annually to meet the needs of Afghan refugees in the country. He called on the international community to continuously support countries hosting migrants, such as Iran.

Afghan Ambassador Zalmai Rassoul was invited to the British Foreign Office on Friday and asked to close the door of the Afghan embassy.

Earlier, after months of trying to force the Afghan embassy in London to interact and cooperate with the group's Foreign Ministry, the Taliban announced that the consular services of the embassy were invalid.

The Taliban's move appears to have influenced the British government's decision to close the embassy.
The ministry has given the Afghan embassy staff 90 days to leave or stay in the UK.

The British Foreign Office has said that the affairs of the embassy will not be handed over to Taliban representatives and that the embassy will be closed for the time being.

The UK is one of the European countries with a large population of Afghan immigrants. The embassy closure makes it difficult for these migrants to access consular services, such as obtaining a power of attorney to divide property.

The Taliban has asked Afghans living in the UK to visit embassies cooperating with the group in Europe to access consular services.

Zalmai Rassoul, the former ambassador to Britain, told the Sunday Times, "It's hard for me to go to official invitations, what should you say when you don't have a government or a country?"
Rassoul had resisted the Taliban's threats and enticements for the past three years and did not respond to the group's Foreign Ministry's requests.

Hanif Atmar, the foreign minister of the former Afghan government, has warned that the closure of the country's diplomatic missions is a historic mistake and will have dire political consequences. Atmar said that closing these agencies will create many legal problems for millions of Afghans.