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Pakistan's former representative to Afghanistan and the Taliban's deputy foreign minister have been arguing over recent retaliatory measures on the social media platform X network.

Esmaeil Baghaei, the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry called on the Taliban to cooperate in the continuation of the flow of water from Afghanistan to Iran and remove the obstacles created.

Abdul Kabir, the Taliban's deputy prime minister for political affairs, said that the group's political relations with Tajikistan are improving compared to the past.

Sources confirmed to Afghanistan International that Abdul Khaliq Hazara, the leader of Pakistan's Hazara Democratic Party, was attacked and injured in an attack in the city of Quetta.

The spokesman for the Taliban governor in Khost announced that Pakistani forces launched rocket attacks on three border villages in the Alisher district of the province on Thursday night.

President-elect Donald Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz has said that the next administration's strategy will focus on containing groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda.

The Washington Post reported that White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had offered US President Joe Biden his resignation due to the turmoil caused by the hasty withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, but the president did not accept his request.

Pakistan has begun its two-year term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

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.