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Pakistan’s Peshawar High Court has ordered the police not to deport Afghan artists from Pakistan until their immigration cases are resolved.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced that the National Resistance Front (NRF) has carried out a total of 29 attacks on Taliban forces in the past three months.

Homayoun Afghan, spokesperson for the Taliban's Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, stated that over the past three years, the ministry has signed contracts worth 10 billion Afghanis with various local companies for the extraction of small mines.

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, reported a significant rise in instability in Afghanistan, with over 2,500 security incidents recorded in the past three months.

Iranian presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf stated that all of Iran's serious social issues originate from the eastern part of the country.

Zakir Jalali, a Taliban Foreign Ministry official, stated that the United Nations has shared the agenda for the third Doha meeting with the group, focusing on the private sector, finance, banking, and drug menace.

Abdul Salam Zaeef, the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, has emphasised that without understanding the world, meaningful interaction is impossible.

Sources have informed Afghanistan International that Salahuddin Rabbani, the leader of a faction of the Jamiat-e-Islami party and former Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, has traveled to Tehran to meet with Iranian officials.

The Taliban's Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has announced that Thursday, June 20, the fourth day of Eid al-Adha, will be a public holiday.

The Taliban's Meteorological Authority has reported the possibility of flooding in 14 provinces.

A group of anti-Taliban political factions and figures will hold a meeting on June 24 in Vienna with the aim of achieving "political unity and creating a clear and shared outlook among free Afghans”.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson, stated that some UN members, particularly the Special Rapporteur for Afghanistan, are attempting to divert attention from the third Doha meeting.

The Taliban's Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation reported that 100-120 airplanes pass through Afghan airspace daily.

The United Nations has announced that the Security Council will hold a meeting on Afghanistan on Friday, June 21.

Evgeny Viktorov, Russia's representative at the UN, Human Rights Council on Tuesday said that achieving lasting peace and stability in Afghanistan is not possible without engaging with the Taliban, particularly on human rights issues.

Jiang Han, China's representative, at the UN Human Rights Council meeting expressed hope that the Taliban would respect the fundamental and basic rights of Afghans, including women, children, and ethnic minorities.

Farhan Haq, UN Secretary-General Deputy Spokesperson, called gender apartheid in Afghanistan a key concern and urged respect for Afghan women's rights.

Sahar Fetrat, a researcher of the Human Rights Watch (HRW), called on the world to hold the Taliban accountable for "crimes" against women during the session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Nada Al-Nashif, the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated on Tuesday that the international community must not allow the systematic violence against women in Afghanistan to become normalised.

The UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan, emphasising on gender apartheid in Afghanistan, said that the systematic and institutionalised discrimination in this country and the exclusion of women should shake the conscience of humanity.

Haal Vsh, a human rights organisation, reported that Iranian security forces arrested four Sunni clerics in Razavi Khorasan province of Iran and transferred them to an unknown location.