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Pakistan’s special representative for Afghanistan said he discussed counterterrorism efforts and regional issues in a telephone call with a senior Iranian official.

Faisal Karim Kundi, governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, warned on Tuesday that Pakistan would carry out further strikes inside Afghanistan if militant attacks from Afghan territory continue.

The Taliban have rejected a Russian Foreign Ministry report estimating that between 20,000 and 23,000 members of international militant organisations are operating in Afghanistan.

Local sources said Taliban forces and Pakistani troops have clashed in border districts of Nangarhar Province.

Taliban foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, discussed Pakistan’s recent airstrikes in Afghanistan during a phone call with Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under-secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs.

Mohsin Dawar, leader of Pakistan’s National Democratic Movement, said the Afghan Taliban are pretending to fight Pakistan’s military and described the approach as populist.

Afghan refugees living in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in north-western Kenya say their situation is deteriorating and that they feel increasingly forgotten by the international community.

As tensions rising between Pakistan and the Taliban, Pakistan’s special representative for Afghanistan said he had discussed regional security concerns with Uzbekistan’s envoy.

Annalena Baerbock, president of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, opened her address to the United Nations Human Rights Council by focusing on the situation of women in Afghanistan, describing it as what some call gender apartheid.

The United Nations said a Pakistani airstrike in the Barmal district of Afghanistan’s Paktika Province struck a religious school and partially damaged a nearby mosque.

The United Nations said at least 13 civilians were killed in Pakistan’s airstrike late Saturday on the Bahsud and Khogyani districts of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province.

Afghanistan’s acting representative to the United Nations said a formal complaint has been lodged against Pakistan following its airstrikes on Afghan territory.

Denmark is cooperating with the Taliban embassy in Oslo to facilitate the deportation of 57 Afghan migrants, Danish broadcaster TV 2 Denmark reported, citing officials. The report said the contact is limited to technical coordination.

Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Taliban, launched a sharply worded attack on Pakistan’s military, accusing it of creating regional instability at the behest of major powers.

Neither the United Nations nor any country other than India has so far condemned Pakistan’s airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar and Paktika Provinces.

Pakistan’s military has vowed to avenge the killing of two security personnel who died Saturday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, warning that it would not let an attack launched from Afghan territory go unanswered.

Murtaza Solangi, spokesperson for Pakistan’s president, shared footage of a concert by Pakistani singer Mehdi Hasan in Kabul, saying the Afghan capital was once a centre of culture and music.

United Nations human rights experts have confirmed that Afghan citizens were among those killed and detained during recent protests in Iran.

Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, has challenged remarks by Donald Trump, demanding evidence for his claim that 32,000 people were killed in Iran.

Local sources in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said at least four people were killed and several others wounded in clashes between fighters of Islamic State Khorasan Province and members of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in the Orakzai District.

A strong earthquake struck parts of Afghanistan on Friday, shaking Panjshir, Badakhshan, Takhar, Samangan, Parwan, Baghlan, Kabul and several other provinces.