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Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban's foreign minister, will visit Doha at the end of July to hold talks with American officials.

Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Thani and British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly have discussed Afghanistan issues.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that United Nations should prioritize human rights, especially the rights of women and girls, when making an assessment of Afghanistan.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban's interior minister, admitted that allowing girls and female students to attend schools and universities is a "controversial issue" among the Taliban.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) claimed to have killed three Taliban members in separate attacks in Nuristan, Laghman, and Nangarhar provinces.

Ayatollah Sayed Mohsen Hojjat has asked the Taliban to respect Muharram rituals and ceremonies and lift the imposed restrictions on Shia practices in Afghanistan.

Following the Taliban's imposed restrictions on the month of Muharram, the Shia Ulema Council asked people to refrain from collective mourning in the streets.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Interior appointed a new police chief for Panjshir Province. Qari Ahmadullah Badr was introduced as the Taliban’s police chief in Panjshir on Tuesday.

Police in Türkiye announced that 34 illegal Afghan refugees and four people associated with smuggling these Afghans have been arrested.

Taliban officials, including Defence Minister Mawlawi Yaqoob; Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani; Intelligence Chief Abdul Haq Wasiq, and the group’s chief justice met with the group’s officials in the western region in Herat province.

Asif Durrani, Pakistan's special representative for Afghanistan, met with Feridun Sinirlioğlu, the UN Special Coordinator for Afghanistan, on Monday and discussed issues related to the recognition of the Taliban.

The Taliban's Ministry of Mines and Petroleum announced that six "large-scale" mines are ready for the extraction process in Afghanistan.

On the first day of the "Government Accountability to the Nation" programme, Taliban's Ministry of Economy announced registration of 376 new non-governmental organisations (NGOs), including 355 domestic and 21 foreign NGOs in Afghanistan.

Ismatullah Irgashev, Uzbekistan's special envoy for Afghanistan, and Barmak Pazhwak from the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) discussed the situation in Afghanistan.

Fada Hossein Maleki, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian parliament, has asked for the closure of the Taliban embassy in Tehran over Iran’s water rights issue.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) condemned the Taliban’s restrictions imposed on the Muharram ceremony and considered it as an attempt to fuel sectarian conflict in Afghanistan.

Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, the spokesperson of Pakistan's Foreign Ministry, said that Islamabad discussed all issues of concern, including the terrorist threat and terrorist acts that emanate from Afghanistan with the Taliban.

Ali Akbar Mehrabian, Iran's Minister of Energy, said that Tehran will pursue the water rights issue from Helmand River until the country receives water from Afghanistan.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) announced the release of four Taliban members who had been arrested by the front’s forces in Badakhshan on Friday.

Two days after Iran’s foreign minister claimed that ISIS leaders had transferred to Afghanistan from Syria, Libya, and Iraq, the Taliban’s foreign ministry rejected the statement and said that the reports about such transfers are not true.

Bakhtiyor Saidov, Uzbekistan’s foreign minister and Feridun Sinirlioğlu, the UN Secretary General's Special Coordinator for Afghanistan met in Tashkent.