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The Taliban has sent a letter to Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, requesting an invite to attend the BRICS leaders' meeting.

Former Pakistani Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed called on Islamabad to engage in high-level political and strategic dialogue with the Afghan Taliban.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front claims to have killed two Taliban members and wounded another on Saturday afternoon in the Sarai Shamali area of Kabul.

Kabul's Taliban-run municipality announced on Sunday, 22 September, that several roundabouts in the capital have been removed to improve traffic conditions.

Ahmad Zia Saraj, former head of Afghanistan's NDS, revealed that in early 2021, he warned his Pakistani counterpart that if the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, the relationship between Islamabad and the group would not last more than a year.

Asif Durrani, a former Pakistani envoy for Afghan affairs, has criticised the Taliban for allowing Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants to operate in Afghanistan.

Sources have informed Afghanistan International that the Taliban, in a meeting with media executives, has ordered that political programs can no longer be broadcast live.

Sarah Adams, a former CIA agent, has claimed that the Taliban handed over Afghan-American citizen Mahmood Shah Habibi to Al-Qaeda. Adams warned that "Habibi is now awaiting execution”.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield has said that the Taliban's authoritarian and absolute misogyny is deeply painful and worrying.

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif and Tajikistan's ambassador to Islamabad Yusuf Sharifzoda discussed the "military, political, economic and social situation in Afghanistan".

Azizur Rahman Mansour, the Taliban's representative, during a speech at the International Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran, emphasised on unity among Muslims.

In a new report, a British media outlet has revealed that the Taliban has allegedly purchased satellite jammers from Iran to disrupt the last remaining independent television channel reporting on the regime’s brutal crackdown on human rights.

Mullah Hassan Akhund, the Taliban's prime minister called on mullahs and religious scholars to use pulpits to resolve differences and prevent divisions among the people.

Following the Taliban's disrespect for the national anthem of the Islamic Republic, the Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Fazl Mohammad Haqqani, the group's chargé d'affaires in Tehran.

A spokesperson for Pakistan's Foreign Ministry rejected the acting Afghan Consul General’s explanation for not standing during the Pakistani national anthem at an event in Peshawar, terming the action a violation of diplomatic norms.

The Taliban's foreign minister announced that 39 Afghan political missions in various countries are currently "obedient" to the group.

The Iranian president's special envoy for Afghanistan called the behaviour of the Taliban official of not standing up for the national anthem of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Tehran a disrespect of diplomatic principles.

On Thursday, the representative of the Taliban did not stand up to respect the national anthem of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the 38th International Islamic Unity Conference held in Tehran.

The Jamiat-e-Islami party has said that in the 1990s, the Taliban had set a precondition for banning women's education and work to stop the war against the Islamic State led by Burhanuddin Rabbani.

The representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations announced that the country is deeply concerned about the growing threat posed by ISIS-K.

The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry officials said during a press conference on Thursday that the group has made significant progress in the past year in lifting sanctions and removing Taliban officials from the United Nations blacklist.