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Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged the Taliban to take "decisive action" against the culprit of the suicide attack in Dera Ismail Khan of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

On Wednesday, Afghan politicians and members of civil society convened in the British Parliament Hall to discuss matters concerning Afghanistan.

Pakistan has extended the deadline for the deportation of Afghans who do not have residency documents and are waiting for settlement in Western countries, until February 29, 2024.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's foreign minister, called Afghan immigrants a "serious challenge" for Iran's public resources, including health and education, and demanded their return to their country.

Rahmatullah Nabil, the former head of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS), in an interview with Afghanistan International, revealed that Pakistan is pressuring the Taliban to form a 'confederation' with it.

Pakistan's security forces have intercepted a shipment of advanced US-manufactured weapons at the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) has claimed responsibility for attacks in Kabul and Nuristan provinces, resulting in the deaths of four Taliban members.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, has categorically denied the group’s involvement in the recent deadly attack in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Documents, which reached the Pashto section of Afghanistan International, indicate that a member of the Afghan Taliban may have carried out an attack on a police station in the Dera Ismail Khan area in Pakistan.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) has said that in an attack on a Taliban outpost on Tuesday evening in Aybak city of Samangan province, three Taliban members have been killed, and two others were wounded.

Matthew Miller, Spokesperson for the US State Department, has voiced ongoing concerns about the potential for terrorist activities in Afghanistan.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) recently convened a closed-door meeting titled "Women's Perspective on Afghanistan”.

The Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organisation has unveiled a virtual museum titled "Afghanistan Memory Home," dedicated to honouring the victims and survivors of the Afghan war.

Richard Bennet, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Afghanistan, spoke to Suhail Shaheen, the head of the Taliban's political office in Doha, and stressed on the need for the Taliban to release human rights defenders in Afghanistan.

Hassan Kazemi Qomi, the Iranian Ambassador in Kabul, marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by strongly condemning the United States as the "biggest violator of human rights in Afghanistan and globally."

Mohmmad Motahari, the head of the Jebrael Shia Ulema Council, has announced that the Taliban has committed to providing weapons and security personnel for Shia religious scholars.

In a concerning development, Abdul Rahim Mohammadi, an Afghan journalist working for Kabul's Tamadon TV, was reportedly detained by the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence in Kabul.

Marking International Human Rights Day, Rina Amiri, the US Special Representative for Women, Girls, and Human Rights in Afghanistan, has appealed to the Taliban for the release of female activists currently in detention.

Karen Decker, the US Chargé d'Affaires for Afghanistan, has said that the US will "hold accountable" two Taliban officials for violating the rights of half of the Afghan population.

Rina Amiri, the US Special Representative for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights, has condemned the Taliban's discriminatory policies against women and girls as among the most "heinous" human rights violations globally.

Participants during a United Nations meeting on Friday called for an investigation by the International Criminal Court into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan.