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Local sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban members began house-to-house searches in Kabul's Khair Khana on Tuesday.

Pakistan's Express Tribune quoted informed sources as saying that Islamabad is avoiding interaction with the Taliban by not nominating a new representative for Afghanistan affairs.

Amnesty International said on Monday that the Taliban's crackdown on civil society activists and journalists is a harsh reality in Afghanistan.

Informed sources within the Taliban said that officials in Kabul are opposed to a directive from Hibatullah Akhundzada prohibiting the broadcast of images of living beings in the media.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced the execution of a flogging sentence for a woman and a man in Kharwar district of Logar province.

Human rights organisation Halvash once again reported the explosion of a mine and the shooting of Afghan migrants by Iranian border guards in Kalgan Saravan.

The 15th Sama Film Festival was held in Stockholm, Sweden, with the participation of directors from Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan and some other countries.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) said on Sunday that one Taliban member was killed and two others were wounded in an attack by its fighters in Kapisa.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) announced on Sunday evening, October 20, that it had attacked the military section of the Kabul Airport from several directions.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced the public flogging of a man and a woman in Takhar province on charges of engaging in an extramarital relationship.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has reported that since September 2023, over 733,000 Afghans have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan.

Sources from Takhar province have informed Afghanistan International that the Taliban has arrested seven of its own members in the Baharak district on suspicion of collaborating with ISIS.

Sources have informed Afghanistan International that the Taliban, following its ban on broadcasting images of living beings, is planning to convert some state television stations into radio outlets.

The Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has initiated a campaign against the depiction of living beings in images and videos.

The Purple Saturdays Movement said in a statement that reopening Taliban-controlled schools with extremist content is more dangerous than keeping girls' schools closed.

Hasibullah Noori, the spokesman for the Taliban-controlled Central Bank of Afghanistan, announced the approval of a new law on "money exchange and services". Under the new law, no one can perform paid services without a licence, Noori said.

Citing the history of inviting the Taliban to Oslo, Human Rights Watch has said that Norway has a "cautious and ambivalent" stance on the harassment of Afghan women.

A survey by the Berlin-based Expert Council on Integration and Migration shows that many Afghans living in Germany suffer discrimination, especially in the housing market.

On Saturday, October 19, the Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency announced the return of 217 Afghan refugee families from Iran and Pakistan.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) claimed that it attacked a Taliban checkpoint at the entrance of the group's Interior Ministry on Friday evening, killing four Taliban members.

Nooruddin Azizi, the Taliban's Minister of Industry and Commerce, travelled to the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, to participate in a trade fair.