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Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman, the leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, called for strong relations between Pakistan and the Taliban and a common strategy "to eliminate terrorism".

Following a land dispute between the nomads (Kuchis) and the Hazaras, Taliban has once again arrested four people from a village in the Punjab district of Bamiyan province.

The Afghan Women's Political Participation Network criticised the US Special Representative for Afghan Women's Affairs for her comments about the need to engage with the Taliban.

Habibullo Vohidzoda, Director of the Drug Control Agency in Tajikistan, said that the Taliban is not acting according to their repeated statements of stepping up their counter-narcotics efforts.

During a meeting with the Taliban's foreign minister in Doha, Afghan businessmen stressed that the Taliban must issue passports in Qatar and facilitate Qatari visas for more Afghan traders.

The Taliban’s Minister of Commerce and Industry asked Russia and Kazakhstan to participate in the construction of the Trans-Afghan railway project.

Iran's Jamaran news reported that the Taliban have banned the activities of the Khomeini Relief Committee offices in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar-e-Sharif.

Taliban fighters killed one person and injured five others after clashing with the relatives of a child for playing a banned mobile game, PUBG, in Paktia province.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Commerce announced that the private sector of Afghanistan and Kazakhstan signed trade agreements worth over a hundred million dollars in Astana city.

Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s foreign minister, said that talks with the US delegation in Qatar had been highly positive.

Kazakhstan’s Minister of Trade and Integration Serik Zhumangarin announced that his country is ready to implement educational programmes for Afghan students.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Refugees announced that 2,576 Afghan refugees have returned to Afghanistan from Iran.

Michael McCaul, Chairman of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, criticised the country’s special envoy for women and human rights in Afghanistan for meeting Taliban members in Doha.

Pakistan’s deputy foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar announced that Afghans are involved in the destabilisation of the country and Islamabad has shared its evidence with the Taliban.

Taliban announced that in the last two days, the group has rejected 17 Iranian fuel tankers due to quality issues.

Ali Salajegheh, Iranian Vice-President and head of the country’s Department of Environment, said that despite the Taliban accepting the Helmand water treaty, the group has released only 15 million cubic meters of water to the country.

The Taliban’s Statistics and Information Authority announced that in the last two years, it has distributed electronic identity cards to 4.6 million citizens of Afghanistan.

Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights announced that in July alone, at least 61 people had been executed inside Iranian prisons, four of whom had been Afghans.

Taliban’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and Mutlaq al-Qahtani, Qatar’s special envoy for counterterrorism and mediation of conflict resolution, met in Doha.

Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s Foreign Minister, met with special representatives and ambassadors of several countries for Afghanistan in Doha.

Zamir Kabulov, Russia's Special Envoy for Afghanistan, announced that there is no progress in the formation of an inclusive government by the Taliban.