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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.

Ali Bagheri Kani and Amir Khan Muttaqi, the foreign ministers of Iran and the Taliban, discussed "joint action" by countries against Israel during a phone call.

The UN Human Rights Council will review the situation in Afghanistan on Tuesday, June 18, during its 56th session.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that the exclusion of women from the third Doha meeting is a violation of the UN Security Council resolution.

In a speech before the Eid al-Adha prayer at the presidential palace (Arg) in Kabul, the Taliban's Prime Minister, Mullah Hassan Akhund, asked the group's opponents to stop opposing them.

Members of the Taliban have shared an audio file of Sheikh Abdul Ali Deobandi on X, in which he declares that teaching women to read and write, even at home, is prohibited.

Agence France-Presse, citing diplomatic sources, reported that representatives of Afghanistan's civil society have not been invited to the third Doha meeting. The UN Secretary-General will also not attend the session.

In an audio recording broadcast by Afghanistan's National Television, Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada expressed concern over internal differences within the group during his Eid speech in Kandahar.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson, announced that the Eid al-Adha prayer was led by Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the group's leader, in Kandahar on Monday.

Ali Bagheri, the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, announced on Sunday evening his first telephone conversation with the Taliban's Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi.

On the verge of the third Doha meeting, Zhao Xing, China's ambassador to Afghanistan, announced that he had met with Markus Potzel, UN Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan.

The National Resistance Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan (NRCA), in a statement on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, criticised the Taliban's actions, declaring, "There is only one way left, and that is resistance against the Taliban."

Israel’s Army Radio, citing the Al-Akhbar newspaper, reported that the Taliban have assured Iran that in the event of a severe war between Israel and Hezbollah, they will send thousands of fighters to Lebanon.

The Shahadat newspaper, the official publication of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizbe Islami reported with images that the Eid prayer was held on Sunday, at the "Islamic Party Grand Mosque" in Pakistan.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Taliban, confirmed in an interview with the media that representatives of the group will attend the third Doha meeting.

Abdul Salam Zaeef, the former Taliban ambassador in Islamabad, states that the tyranny and absolute rule of an emir are among the main factors leading to the decline of Islamic societies.

According to numbers from the Taliban's Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations, 10,273 Afghan refugees have been returned to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan over the past week.