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The Islamic Republic of Iran executed at least 138 prisoners, including nine Afghans, in December 2024, the human rights organisation Hengaw reported.

The Taliban's deputy spokesman denied the Pakistani Defence Minister's claim that the Taliban had demanded 10 billion rupees in exchange for the removal of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters from the border areas.

The Iranian Human Rights Organisation reported that the Islamic Republic executed five prisoners, including three Afghans, in the central prison of Bandar Abbas.

Fazl Ahmad Manawi, a former justice minister and a member of the National Resistance Front (NRF), said that Khalil Haqqani, the former Taliban refugee minister, had indirect and continuous contacts with the NRF.

An assistant professor at Allameh Tabataba’i University said at a conference in Tehran on Wednesday that many elites from Afghanistan migrated to Iran after the Taliban came to power.

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has claimed that the Taliban had demanded 10 billion rupees to remove the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) from the border areas.

Sources in Herat report that the Taliban have arrested more than 60 money exchangers over the past week for operating without licences.

The National Resistance Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan has condemned the Taliban’s increasing restrictions throughout 2024, describing this period as the “darkest and bleakest” in the nation’s history.

The Taliban’s Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs has attributed severe water shortages and a lack of resources in rural areas as the primary drivers behind migration from villages to cities.

Statistics from the Taliban’s Supreme Court and statements from officials across Afghanistan indicate that the group publicly flogged 583 people and executed six individuals during 2024.

Anwar Zeb Khan, a representative of Bajaur in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly of Pakistan, has revealed that hundreds of insurgents from Afghanistan have entered the Bajaur region and seized control of five checkpoints.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has revealed that 455 civilians were killed or injured in 234 explosion-related incidents across Afghanistan in 2024.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) announced on Tuesday that it had targeted the convoy of Abdul Latif Mansour, the Taliban’s Minister of Energy and Water, in the Khair Khana area of northern Kabul.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has condemned the Taliban’s recent directive threatening to revoke the licences of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that employ women.

Emomali Rahmon, the President of Tajikistan, met with General Asim Munir, the Director-General of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), in Dushanbe.

Taliban officials have inaugurated the “Shah wa Arous” dam in the Shakardara district of Kabul.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced that it has provided 475,000 children in Afghanistan with therapeutic food rich in protein, vitamins and minerals this year with the aim of combating malnutrition.

Issa Bozorgzadeh, the spokesman for the Islamic Republic's water industry, said that Afghanistan's "unilateral" exploitation of the Harirud River is a violation of Iran's customary rights.

Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and candidate for German chancellor, called for fundamental changes in Germany's immigration and asylum policies.

Abolfazl Zohrevand, a member of Iran's parliament, criticised the supporters of a "full relationship with the Taliban", saying that the group acts as a threat to Iran.

French MP Maud Petit strongly criticised the Taliban's restrictions on Afghan women.