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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.

A spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice called the Pashtun Jirga of Pakistan the work of "ISI contractors and mercenaries" and a "conspiracy" of the organisation.

The Taliban called on Afghans living in Pakistan to refrain from attending political demonstrations and gatherings.

According to reports by Politico, Der Spiegel, and several other media outlets, Afghan and Syrian refugees have been subjected to abuse and mistreatment in Turkish deportation centres.

Local sources in Takhar said that Taliban officials, during a meeting with journalists and local media officials, issued an order to completely ban photography and video reporting in the province.

Suhail Shaheen, head of the Taliban’s political office in Doha, has announced that approximately 2,000 women are currently employed within the group’s Ministry of Interior.

Swiss media have reported that Switzerland has deported two Afghan migrants described as “criminals.”

The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that the criminal court in Kunar province publicly flogged eight individuals on charges of same-sex relations, theft, and running away from home.

The 2024 Global Hunger Index has ranked Afghanistan 116th out of 127 countries, with a score of 30.8. Last year, Afghanistan held the 114th position with a score of 30.6, indicating a decline of two places in this year’s evaluation.

The French news agency AFP, citing a source close to the case, reported that the Afghan man arrested in Toulouse, France, is the brother of the individual accused of plotting an attack on the U.S. presidential election day.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front has claimed responsibility for the killing of three Taliban members, including an official from the Taliban’s Intelligence Department 90, in an attack on Saturday evening at the Alaudin intersection in Kabul.

The Taliban has not been invited to the upcoming meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which will be held in Pakistan on Tuesday, October 15 and Wednesday, October 16.

The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament announced that during his visit to Tajikistan, he discussed Afghanistan, the fight against narcotics and arms smuggling.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that the group's criminal court in Kandahar has punished a person for robbery in Kandahar by flogging him in public.

Jafar Mahdavi, a former member of parliament, claimed that talks between the Taliban and the group's political opponents have "entered promising stages”.