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The UN refugee agency reported that the Taliban's law for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice has increased psychological pressure on Afghan women.

Grigory Karasin, chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Council of the Russian Federation, said that continuing dialogue with the Taliban is important in order to maintain peace and stability in Central Asia.

Hilary Power, a senior official at Human Rights Watch, called the new UN Human Rights Council resolution another failure for the council.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday released a report on the situation of the former Afghan government's female police personnel.

Bakhtar News Agency, under the control of the Taliban, censored the picture of Veronika Bošković, the European Union's chargé d'affaires in Afghanistan.

Danish media reported that as of September 18, 2024, the country will no longer recognise the renewed passports of Afghans. According to reports, Afghans who have renewed passports must apply for a new one.

The Kandahar Department of Culture and Information announced on its social media network X handle that the Taliban's appeals court punished five defendants at the city's Ahmad Shahi Stadium on Wednesday, October 9.

The US State Department spokesperson has said that the US position on the Taliban has not changed and that Washington continues to recognise the group as a "global terrorist organisation".

The Taliban's Supreme Court said that it publicly flogged three people, including two women, on Wednesday for alleged extramarital affairs in Farkhar district of Takhar province.

Sources close to Mullah Hibatullah, the Taliban leader, claim that many Sunni extremist jihadist groups, from South Asia to North Africa, have pledged allegiance to the group’s leader.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called for the "immediate and unconditional" release of Mahdi Ansary, a reporter for the Afghan News Agency, and Hekmat Aryan, the director of the independent Khoshhal radio station, from Taliban custody.

The World Food Programme (WFP) said that it could provide emergency food assistance to only one million of the 12 million hungry people in Afghanistan due to a lack of funds.

Radio Pakistan reported that a number of Afghans have participated in the PTI party's protests against the government after they received a promise of "receiving money".

Bakhtar News Agency, a Taliban-controlled media outlet, reported that 346 Afghan refugee families were deported from Iran and Pakistan in a single day.

The Taliban's Ministry of Justice announced that it had confiscated 259,469 acres of usurped land in 23 provinces of Afghanistan from September to October this year.

A female employee of a clinic in Badakhshan's Jurm district was kidnapped last week and murdered after being raped, local sources told Afghanistan International.

Following a deadly attack on a Taliban base in the village of Mohammad Baig Khel in Panjshir province, Taliban intelligence forces have arrested a number of local residents and launched house-to-house search operations in the province.

On October 7, the Taliban government wrote in a statement that the United States "invaded Afghanistan with great cruelty and terror" on this day. Twenty-three years ago, the US-led counterterrorism coalition invaded Afghanistan in response to the 9/11 attacks.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry called on the Taliban to respond to the needs and demands of the Afghan people, including the reopening of girls' schools, instead of interfering in the country's internal affairs.

Mohammad Karami, the governor of Sistan and Baluchestan province, announced that an agreement had been reached during a meeting with Taliban officials to set up a new border crossing in the Gamshad area.

The Taliban’s governor in Khost said on Sunday that Islamic law is applied first in government institutions and then, in society.