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Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada said that he had received a report about the killing of prisoners in the group's prisons.

During a meeting with the Taliban's Minister of Mines, the Iranian delegation announced the willingness of Iranian investors to extract iron, coal, and oil mines.

An investigative report by Afghanistan International Pashto reveals that around 50 high-ranking Taliban officials have purchased or "seized" luxury homes worth millions of dollars in the affluent Aino Maina neighbourhood of Kandahar.

Tajik media reported that the country has exported more than $82.3 million worth of electricity to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan over the past eight months.

On Monday, the Taliban announced the inauguration ceremony of Abdul Ghafar Bahar, the group's ambassador to Uzbekistan.

UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary Di Carlo warned that the Doha process is in danger of being halted due to the Taliban's non-compliance with its commitments.

Local sources from Khost told Afghanistan International that a week ago, the Taliban took 16 women from the women's market and transferred them to the Khost Central Prison.

The Taliban's police command in Panjshir on Monday announced the start of the second round of the process of collecting unlicensed weapons in the province.

Local sources in Herat said that the Taliban arrested at least 70 money changers from the Khorasan market in the city on Sunday.

As the new school year begins in Iran, a number of Afghans, especially students, protested in front of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the city of Shiraz on Sunday.

The deputy minister of information and culture of the Taliban said that based on the order of the prime minister of this group, a committee has been established to review the books.

The Taliban has sent a letter to Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, requesting an invite to attend the BRICS leaders' meeting.

Former Pakistani Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed called on Islamabad to engage in high-level political and strategic dialogue with the Afghan Taliban.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front claims to have killed two Taliban members and wounded another on Saturday afternoon in the Sarai Shamali area of Kabul.

Kabul's Taliban-run municipality announced on Sunday, 22 September, that several roundabouts in the capital have been removed to improve traffic conditions.

Ahmad Zia Saraj, former head of Afghanistan's NDS, revealed that in early 2021, he warned his Pakistani counterpart that if the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, the relationship between Islamabad and the group would not last more than a year.

Asif Durrani, a former Pakistani envoy for Afghan affairs, has criticised the Taliban for allowing Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants to operate in Afghanistan.

Sources have informed Afghanistan International that the Taliban, in a meeting with media executives, has ordered that political programs can no longer be broadcast live.

Sarah Adams, a former CIA agent, has claimed that the Taliban handed over Afghan-American citizen Mahmood Shah Habibi to Al-Qaeda. Adams warned that "Habibi is now awaiting execution”.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield has said that the Taliban's authoritarian and absolute misogyny is deeply painful and worrying.

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif and Tajikistan's ambassador to Islamabad Yusuf Sharifzoda discussed the "military, political, economic and social situation in Afghanistan".