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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will hold a consultative meeting on Afghanistan on 11–12 September in Dushanbe, the group’s secretary-general said.

A Taliban court said Saturday it publicly flogged a man and a woman in northern Jowzjan province after convicting them of “illicit relations.”

China has agreed in principle to extend the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) into Afghanistan, Pakistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister said Friday.

Pakistan’s foreign minister has declined to comment on reported airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar and Khost provinces, which the Taliban have blamed on Islamabad.

The head of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) said Afghanistan continues to face unresolved challenges over terrorism, women’s rights and social issues, warning that the situation remains a concern for the region.

Financial aid from Gulf countries to the Taliban, intended to support the relocation of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) families, has been suspended due to concerns over transparency, sources told Afghanistan International.

The Taliban governor of Panjshir has warned that foreign backing for opposition groups and their gatherings abroad could drag Afghanistan into civil war.

More than 23,000 fighters from international terrorist groups are active in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, posing a serious threat to regional and global security, Russia’s Security Council secretary said Monday.

The Taliban’s Defence Ministry has warned Pakistan of consequences following airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan that it said killed civilians, including women and children.

More than 100 human rights organisations have called on the UN Human Rights Council and the European Union to establish an independent investigative mechanism for Afghanistan.

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has sent a delegation from Kandahar to Kabul to press former Afghan President Hamid Karzai to leave the country, sources told Afghanistan International.

The Taliban said Thursday they summoned Pakistan’s ambassador in Kabul to protest against drone strikes in eastern Afghanistan that they said killed three civilians and wounded seven others.

Two drone strikes in eastern Nangarhar province wounded at least four civilians, including a woman and three children, Taliban officials said Thursday.

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has urged former Afghan President Hamid Karzai to leave the country, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Unidentified drones targeted fighters of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Hafiz Gul Bahadur faction in three Afghan provinces on Wednesday evening, sources told Afghanistan International.

An Afghan prisoner was executed in southern Iran without his family being informed or granted a final visit, a rights group said Wednesday.

The Taliban and Tajik authorities have accused each other of harbouring armed opponents following a deadly border clash in Badakhshan province, officials and sources said.

The Taliban flogged three women and four men in public in Ghor province after convicting them of extramarital relations and fleeing from home, the group’s Supreme Court said.

Iranian and Taliban officials met in Kabul this week to discuss border cooperation, economic ties and the situation of Afghan migrants in Iran, both sides said.

A passenger bus overturned on the Kabul–Kandahar highway late Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and injuring 27 others, Taliban officials said.

Switzerland has reopened an office in Kabul to manage humanitarian aid, becoming the first Western country to re-establish an on-the-ground presence in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Swiss media reported.