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In a statement, Amnesty International called for the prosecution of the perpetrators of the shooting of Afghan migrants at the Iranian border.

The Taliban has appointed a high-level delegation to investigate the killing of Afghan refugees near the Iranian border.

Nooruddin Azizi, the Taliban's Minister of Industry and Commerce, announced the suspension of poultry meat imports to Afghanistan. Azizi said that it was not clear whether the poultry meat that entered Afghanistan from Brazil was halal or haram.

Iran's deputy police chief General Qassem Rezaei called on the public to report any gathering of "unauthorised nationals" to the police.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that it had publicly flogged 10 people, including four women, in Khost, Kabul and Laghman provinces on charges of extramarital sex and same-sex relations.

Kazemi Qomi, the Iranian president's special representative for Afghanistan affairs and the country's ambassador to Kabul, said, "The news about the death of dozens of illegal nationals at the Saravan border is not true."

Salahuddin Ayubi, the Taliban's Uzbek commander who recently resigned from his position as the group's police chief in Zabul, has returned to his job.

Commenting on reports of land sales to Afghans and the Taliban's presence in Chabahar, government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said that Iran does not endanger its internal security and borders for the sake of economic interests.

Despite the widespread and violent crackdown on women's protest movements, the Afghan Women's Movement for Equality took to the streets in western Kabul on Wednesday to protest against Taliban's human rights violations and the killing of Hazaras.

The 23rd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) began on Wednesday, October 16, in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.

The former Afghan attorney general has said that the "deliberate killing" of Afghan migrants by Iranian border guards is a "crime against humanity.

In a joint statement, the leaders of Pakistan and China asked the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to adopt a "moderate" policy and form an inclusive government.

The Taliban's Supreme Court said that it publicly flogged two men in Khost province on charges of having same-sex relations.

Kyrgyz media reported that a Kyrgyz humanitarian group from Kyrgyzstan travelled to Badakhshan to help and treat Afghan Kyrgyz.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that it had flogged five people, including a woman, in Maidan Wardak province.

The Taliban's Ministry of Communications said that 1.6 million SIM cards have been registered in Afghanistan in the past three months.

Pakistani customs officials announced the discovery and seizure of a shipment of weapons left behind by US forces in Afghanistan at the Torkham crossing.

A spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice said that the group would gradually implement a law prohibiting the publication of images of living beings in all media.

Sources in Badakhshan province told Afghanistan International that the Taliban has separated the hours of admission of male and female patients at the province's central hospital.

The Afghanistan Journalists Centre (AFJC) reported that a Taliban court in Ghazni sentenced Hekmat Aryan, the editor-in-chief of Radio Khushal, to one month in prison.

The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) announced that the organisation's military exercises will take place at the Harb Maidon training centre in Tajikistan, close to the Afghan border.