NRF Claims Responsibility For Explosion At Taliban Headquarters In Panjshir

According to the report, these Afghan refugee families returned to Afghanistan from the Torkham, Spin Boldak, Pul-e-Abrisham, and Islam Qala crossings.

According to figures published by Bakhtar, 35 families entered Afghanistan through the Torkham crossing, 30 families from the Spin Boldak crossing, 77 families from the Silk Bridge crossing, and 99 families from the Islam Qala crossing.

Iran and Pakistan have sharply increased the deportation of Afghan refugees without residency documents.

These immigrants are forcibly deported in most cases.

According to local sources, the target of the attack was a flower-covered vehicle that belonged to the wedding ceremony of one of the Taliban commanders.

According to the information provided, three children were injured in the blast and were transferred to Takhar Central Hospital.

So far, no information has been released about the damage caused to the Taliban in the incident, and authorities are investigating the details of the explosion.

Zamir Kabulov said that the invitation to the BRICS summit can only be done with the agreement of all its members. The Taliban has asked Russia to be invited to the meeting.

Tass news agency reported on Friday that Zamir Kabulov told reporters after the Moscow consultative format meeting that inviting the Taliban to Kazan would depend on how BRICS members react to it.

The BRICS summit is scheduled to be held from October 22 to 24 in the Russian city of Kazan.

Two weeks ago, Russia's state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported that the Taliban had sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov asking him to attend the BRICS leaders' meeting.

The letter states that Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's deputy prime minister, is interested in attending the BRICS meeting.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko announced on Thursday, October 3, that the Taliban's request to participate in the BRICS summit has not yet been approved. Rudenko said that the BRICS countries have not yet reached a consensus for the presence of a Taliban representative in the meeting.

The main members of the BRICS group include Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The group expanded with the membership of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iran and Ethiopia at the beginning of this year.

Zabihullah Mujahid told the Taliban-controlled National Radio and Television on Wednesday, September 26, that powerful countries in the economic arena are members of the BRICS, and that is why Taliban representatives want to participate in the upcoming meeting. He added that the move could provide more opportunities for Afghanistan.

The ruling was issued after reviewing the cases of two Afghan women whose asylum applications in Austria had been rejected.

The European Union's Supreme Court in Brussels, on Friday, October 4, during the review of the cases of two Afghan women whose asylum applications were rejected by the Austrian Migration Agency in 2015 and 2020, announced that "there is no need to prove persecution in the country of origin in order to accept Afghan women's asylum applications”.

The court ruled that only being a woman was enough to accept the application.

Reuters news agency reported that one of the women had resided in Iran without legal documents before entering Austria and that her father (an addict) had intended to sell her to pay for his addiction.

Also, according to the Geneva Convention, European countries do not deport asylum seekers who have been persecuted in their country of origin. Earlier, some European countries had announced that Afghan women's asylum applications would be accepted because of their gender. Courts in France and countries such as Sweden and Denmark have also announced similar policies.

"We are cooperating with some countries and sometimes we share information with them," Mujahid added.

According to AFP, a 2023 UN Security Council report stated that the Taliban has secretly asked for intelligence and logistical support to counter ISIS.

According to the report, the Taliban has presented themselves as "a counter-terrorism partner". Following the withdrawal of US-led forces from Afghanistan, the Taliban has declared security as their highest priority.

Despite the possession of military equipment left over from the United States, analysts are sceptical of the Taliban's ability to fully counter ISIS due to information technology limitations.

American analyst Aaron Zelin has emphasised that between March 2023 and March 2024, ISIS was able to plan 21 international attacks in nine countries, indicating an increase in the group's threats compared to the previous year.

In recent months, ISIS has claimed responsibility for deadly attacks in Afghanistan, Russia and Iran.

General Michael Kurilla, the commander of US forces in the Middle East, has also warned that ISIS in Afghanistan could target US and other Western interests.