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The Afghan embassy in the Netherlands has announced that the office is engaging with the Taliban's foreign ministry.

Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban’s deputy foreign minister for political affairs, asked the international community to work with the Taliban "despite the difference of opinion in some areas”.

Tomas Niklasson, the European Union's Special Envoy for Afghanistan, said that arbitrary arrests of Afghans who stand up for their rights and the rights of others, are illegal.

Local sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban officials have arrested a former officer of the National Directorate Security (NDS), the Afghan Intelligence agency in previous government, on Tuesday.

Amnesty International said that many Afghans who fled from Afghanistan to Pakistan fearing persecution by the Taliban are facing a wave of arbitrary arrests and threats of deportation.

Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban's foreign minister, leading a delegation of the group's officials left for China on Tuesday to participate in the third meeting of the Trans-Himalaya Forum.

Abbas Jowhari, the deputy governor of Tehran, referred to the presence of 2.5 million immigrants in the western part of the Iranian capital, as a big challenge for the province.

Launching a petition, Amnesty International has asked the French government to facilitate visa issuance for Afghan women and girls.

The World Food Programme (WFP) announced that more than a million mothers and children in Afghanistan have been deprived of nutrition assistance due to the massive funding shortage.

Jomhouri-e-Eslami Newspaper has reported that the Taliban have threatened to capture Isfahan province within two days.

Sources have confirmed to Afghanistan International that the Turkish government has issued a diplomatic visa to Mohammad Zubair Wadan and he has been appointed as the Taliban's new diplomat at the Afghan embassy in Ankara.

Iran’s embassy in Kabul announced that a delegation of the Taliban left Kabul for Tehran to participate in the 37th Islamic Unity Conference.

Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s foreign minister, met with the representative of Saudi Arabia on the sidelines of the Moscow Format meeting.

A member of “Pen Path” organisation said that in the coming days, the Taliban will prosecute Matiullah Wesa, an Afghan education activist.

Amnesty International expressed deep concerns over the arbitrary detention of Zholia Parsi, women’s rights activist, and asked for the immediate release of her and other activists from the Taliban prison.

A group of Afghan women's rights activists in Germany resumed their sit-in protest for the recognition of "gender apartheid" in Afghanistan.

During the Moscow Format meeting, special representatives of a several regional countries stressed on counter-terrorism and the formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan.

Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the National Resistance Front (NRF), said that there are no ongoing peace negotiations with the Taliban.

Zamir Kabulov, Russia's Special Representative for Afghanistan, said that the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has no plan to meet the Taliban’s foreign minister.

A day after the Taliban denied the presence of Pakistani fighters in Afghanistan, Jalil Abbas Jilani Pakistan’s acting foreign minister, announced that members of the Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had been arrested in Afghanistan.

Zamir Kabulov, Russia's Special Representative for Afghanistan, quoted the country's foreign minister as emphasising that achieving peace in Afghanistan is improbable without the inclusion of all ethnic groups in the government.