
Don’t Consider Khyber Pakhtunkhwa To Be Pak's Territory, Says Taliban’s Defence Ministry
Inayatullah Khwarizmi, a spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry of Defence, said that the group does not consider Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to be part of Pakistan.

Inayatullah Khwarizmi, a spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry of Defence, said that the group does not consider Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to be part of Pakistan.

The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) announced that it had killed 10 Taliban fighters and wounded five other Taliban members in a targeted operation on the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) announced that its members reiterated their support for the work of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General.

The Taliban's Supreme Court has announced that a woman has been flogged in public on charges of "theft" in Andkhoy district of Faryab province.

The Taliban's Ministry of Defence confirmed the occurrence of clashes on the border with Pakistan.

Residents of Kabul reported an explosion near the Taliban's Ministry of Interior in Kabul on Saturday, December 28.

Russia's security service announced on Friday, December 27, that it had prevented a terrorist attack by the Afghanistan-based ISIS-K branch near the Russian Interior Ministry in Moscow.

Three days after Pakistan's airstrikes on Paktika, the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on the Taliban administration to adopt a decisive policy against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

The Taliban's Ministry of Industry and Commerce wrote in a statement that Uzbekistan has promised to help the group with soil laboratory equipment.

Pakistan's military said that a senior army officer and 13 TTP members were killed in separate clashes between its security forces and insurgents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The Taliban's Ministry of Public Works announced on December 27 that China's first rail transit shipment arrived in Herat via Iran's rail network.

The Taliban's foreign minister called the Pakistani airstrike on Paktika a great injustice and said that Afghans do not forget anyone's good or evil deeds.

Alireza Bekdeli, the charge d'affaires of the Iranian embassy in Kabul, during a meeting with Abbas Araghchi and Iskandar Momeni, the country's foreign and interior ministers, emphasised on the strengthening of Iran's relations with the Taliban.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that the group flogged two people on Wednesday in the Warmi district of Paktika province on charges of having extramarital affairs.

In response to Pakistan's airstrikes on Paktika, Taliban’s intelligence agency spokesman Jawad Sargar said that Punjab has been separated from other parts of Pakistan and now the possibility of Pakistan's disintegration is stronger than ever.

A group of civil society activists has announced the release of Hamid Qarluq, an Uzbek civil and social activist, from the Taliban's custody.

The Taliban's Ministry of Public Health announced in a press conference that 72% of the people in Afghanistan's villages do not have access to primary and secondary health services.

In response to Pakistan's attack on Paktika, Afghanistan's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva Nasir Andisha said that Islamabad has resorted to "coercive diplomacy" towards the Taliban.

In a sharp reaction to overnight attack by Pakistani warplanes on Barmal in Paktika province, Taliban's Ministry of Defence said that it "will not leave the attack unanswered, and considers defence of its territory as its inalienable right".

Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Taliban, has confirmed that at least 46 individuals have lost their lives following airstrikes conducted by Pakistan in Paktika province.

Rahmatullah Jaber, the Taliban's education chief in Herat, announced in a letter that girls' education above the sixth grade in private education centres is prohibited.