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The Afghanistan Journalists' Support Organisation (AJSO) said that without support for Afghan media, the future of freedom of expression in the country is in serious danger.

Sources from the Taliban's Prisons Regulatory Authority confirmed to Afghanistan International that 150 foreign nationals are currently being held in the group's prisons in Afghanistan.

Jabbar Ali Zakeri, Deputy Minister for Roads and Urban Development of Iran, Chair of Board and President of Railways of Islamic Republic, given the proximity of Iran, Afghanistan, and China, called for connecting the railways of the three countries.

Local sources told Afghanistan International on Wednesday that the Taliban in Kunar Province has banned the broadcast of images of living creatures.

In response to Pakistan's security concerns from Afghan soil, the US State Department spokesperson, Mathew Miller said that Washington is cooperating with Islamabad in strengthening its capabilities to counter the threats of terrorist groups.

The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kabul said that former President Hamid Karzai in a meeting with Iran's special representative for Afghanistan called for a regional initiative to solve the problems of the Afghan people.

Several UN agencies are trying to make Afghanistan's blocked climate funds available, which have been frozen since the Taliban seized power in the country.

Uzbekistan's new ambassador to Afghanistan, Oybek Usmanov, presented his credentials to Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban's foreign minister.

On the occasion of the 78th anniversary of Afghanistan's membership in the United Nations, Afghanistan's mission to the United Nations called on the world to fulfil its commitments to Afghanistan.

The Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency reported on Wednesday that 256 families from Iran and Pakistan returned to Afghanistan in a single day.

Mohammad Abbas Khan, Pakistan's chief commissioner for refugees, said on Tuesday that an international conference should be held to increase the acceptance of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan by Western countries.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that the group had flogged a woman in front of the public on charges of "moral corruption" in Bak district of Khost province.

Nader Yarahmadi, an adviser to Iran's interior minister, said that the Islamic Republic issues more than 500,000 visas annually to Afghan citizens.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that the group had flogged a woman in Baghlan on charges of "procuring" in front of the public.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai criticised the Taliban's harsh laws against Afghan women, stating that she never imagined that women's rights would be trampled on so easily.

Pakistani media reported that Islamabad had shared "convincing evidence" about the sanctuaries of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other terror groups on Afghan soil with China's special envoy for Afghanistan Yue Xiaoyong.

Al-Mirsad, a media outlet affiliated with the Taliban, compared the current situation of the Pakistani government to the final months of Ashraf Ghani's government in Afghanistan and promised victory to the Pakistani Taliban.

A Chinese citizen was killed in an attack by armed assailants on workers on the Tajik-Afghan border, local sources told the media.

Afghan director Roya Sadat's film "The Sharp Edge of Peace" was screened at the European Parliament on Monday night, November 18.

Lutfullah Sadat, Afghanistan's consul in Bonn, announced that he was submitting his resignation due to "restrictions and demands of the host country”.

In an investigative report, the Guardian described the Taliban's destruction of thousands of homes in Kabul as a catastrophic purge with an "ethnic motive".