The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that it has built 1,000 houses for more than 8,000 earthquake victims in Barmal district of Paktika province. UNHCR said on Thursday that houses would be handed over before snow isolates the remote area.

Sources said that Taliban officials have arrested Gholam Mohammad Dastgir, the father of Anoosh Dastgir, the coach of Afghanistan national football team. Dastgir had been arrested on October 28 on charges of cooperating with the National Resistance Front in Parwan province.

Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency reported that three girls lost their lives due to an explosion of an unexploded ammunition in Kharistan area of Muqur district of Badghis province.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) believes that there are doubts on whether there will be white cane day activities, a day marked around the world to advocate for the rights of people with vision impairments, in Afghanistan this year.

Matiullah Wesa, an education activist, said that they have received threats due to their girls’ education campaigns. Wesa added that some of his colleagues had been detained by the Taliban.

Asad Durrani former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief said that he was sure that former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani would flee the country or would be executed in Afghanistan. Durrani added that “Taliban is a hundred times better than Ghani’s government.”

The Taliban’s Ministry of Defense announced that firefighting teams of the ministry have contained the fire at the Zadran shopping mall. Fire engulfed the major shopping mall in western Kabul on Wednesday and the Taliban have not given further details about causes of the fire.

The Taliban announced that the group has discovered and seized a cache of weapons and ammunition in Panjshir province. According to the Taliban officials, the storage unit had been found during an operation in a mountain in Hisa-e-Awal district of the province.

Local sources reported an explosion in Kabul city. Sources said that the explosion has been heard near the Wazir Akbar Khan area in district 10 of the city. Some sources said that the explosion took place in the Grand Mosque of Wazir Akbar Khan area.

Three members of the Taliban have been killed and two others have been wounded in an ambush by the Islamic State-Khurasan (IS-K) in Kunar province, sources said. According to the sources, the ambush took place in Diwagul area of Chawkay district.