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Mohammad Sadiq, Pakistan's special representative for Afghanistan, announced that the second phase of the Allama Iqbal Scholarships programme for Afghan students has begun.

Abbas Stanekzai, the Taliban's deputy foreign minister, said that the group has evidence that ISIS has training centres in Pakistan.

Julia Parsi, a women's rights activist, has claimed that she lost hearing in one of her ears as a result of the Taliban's torture in the group's prison.

Local sources told Afghanistan International that Pakistani forces targeted parts of Sarkani district of Kunar province with "artillery attacks" on Thursday night, January 9.

Tim Burchett, a US congressman and supporter of the National Resistance Front, said that he has submitted a draft bill to the House of Representatives that would ensure that US money does not reach the Taliban.

The joint findings of the German newspaper Der Spiegel and the American publication Insider show that two Afghan asylum seekers in Germany are suspected of spying for the Russian intelligence agency.

A number of university professors and researchers have said in a letter of protest to the United Nations that the Taliban are seeking to turn universities into religious schools.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it had publicly flogged seven people in three provinces, Kapisa, Paktia and Ghazni.

Sources told Afghanistan International that Najib Faryad, a local reporter for a private TV channel, was beaten up by gunmen in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday morning, January 9.

Amnesty International has said that Pakistan has arbitrarily detained and harassed hundreds of Afghan refugees, including women and children, in Islamabad in recent days.

UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan met with Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Wednesday without the group's official flag.

Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met with Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai on Wednesday.

Ehsan Jahanian, the political, security, and social deputy of the governor of Bushehr in Iran announced that the employment and residence of Afghans in the 5-kilometre radius of the nuclear power plant is prohibited.

The Afghanistan Journalists Support Organisation announced that Mehdi Ansari, a reporter for the Afghan News Agency, has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison by the Taliban's court in Kabul.

Local sources from Baghlan province report that armed assailants carried out an attack on Tuesday night in the Baghlan-e-Markazi district, killing a pro-Taliban cleric and wounding another individual. The attack was claimed by ISIS.

Zamir Kabulov, Russia's representative for Afghanistan affairs, announced that Moscow wants to form a bilateral Russia-Taliban working group in the spring of 2025.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Wednesday that the department has renewed a memorandum of understanding on the transfer of its Afghan colleagues to the United States.

Bakhtar News Agency, under the control of the Taliban, announced the holding of a meeting on border protection in the presence of Mullah Yaqoob Mujahid, the group's defence minister.

According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, it has been predicted that 14.8 million people in Afghanistan will face severe food insecurity from November 2024 to March 2025.

The Afghanistan Journalists Centre (AFJC) said on Tuesday that the Taliban's Office for the Promotion of Virtue in Nuristan province has officially banned taking pictures of a living person and publishing it in the province.

Pakistan's federal government on Tuesday told the country's Supreme Court that the validity of Afghan migrants’ Proof of Registration (PoR) cards has been extended until July 30, 2025.