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

Hamdullah Fitrat, the Taliban's deputy spokesman, said that any decision on Afghanistan at UN Security Council meetings without the presence of the group's representative is "one-sided and inconclusive".

Taliban’s Ministry of Economy, marking the second year since banning women from employment in non-governmental organisations (NGOs), has issued a renewed warning to domestic and international organisations to strictly adhere to this directive.

Afghanistan’s Central Bank, under Taliban control, has announced that the Participation Banks Association of Turkiye conducted a three-day training programme for its employees.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced its support for Afghan saffron farmers by providing seeds and expert consultation to assist in cultivating and processing this highly valuable spice.

Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, has expressed concern over escalating tensions along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Zakharova urged both Pakistan and the Taliban to “show restraint” and resolve their disputes through dialogue.

The Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency has reported that, within the past 24 hours, 115 migrant families have returned to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan.

Inayatullah Khwarizmi, a spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry of Defence, said that the group does not consider Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to be part of Pakistan.

The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) announced that it had killed 10 Taliban fighters and wounded five other Taliban members in a targeted operation on the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) announced that its members reiterated their support for the work of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General.

The Taliban's Supreme Court has announced that a woman has been flogged in public on charges of "theft" in Andkhoy district of Faryab province.

The Taliban's Ministry of Defence confirmed the occurrence of clashes on the border with Pakistan.

Residents of Kabul reported an explosion near the Taliban's Ministry of Interior in Kabul on Saturday, December 28.

Russia's security service announced on Friday, December 27, that it had prevented a terrorist attack by the Afghanistan-based ISIS-K branch near the Russian Interior Ministry in Moscow.

Three days after Pakistan's airstrikes on Paktika, the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on the Taliban administration to adopt a decisive policy against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

The Taliban's Ministry of Industry and Commerce wrote in a statement that Uzbekistan has promised to help the group with soil laboratory equipment.

Pakistan's military said that a senior army officer and 13 TTP members were killed in separate clashes between its security forces and insurgents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The Taliban's Ministry of Public Works announced on December 27 that China's first rail transit shipment arrived in Herat via Iran's rail network.

The Taliban's foreign minister called the Pakistani airstrike on Paktika a great injustice and said that Afghans do not forget anyone's good or evil deeds.

Alireza Bekdeli, the charge d'affaires of the Iranian embassy in Kabul, during a meeting with Abbas Araghchi and Iskandar Momeni, the country's foreign and interior ministers, emphasised on the strengthening of Iran's relations with the Taliban.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that the group flogged two people on Wednesday in the Warmi district of Paktika province on charges of having extramarital affairs.