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On Thursday, local sources said that Haji Laal, a former local police commander in Chahar Bolak district of Balkh province had been killed by unknown armed men in Mazar-e-Sharif city.

To mark six months since the Taliban’s detention of Franco-Afghan journalist Mortaza Behboudi, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) unveiled a giant counter on the facade of the Paris-Centre town hall on Thursday.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the Taliban’s participation in the next summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is possible only with the consent of all member states.

Mustafa Mahami, Iran’s leader’s envoy in Sistan and Baluchistan province, said that the Islamic Republic must be firm in receiving the country’s water rights from Helmand River.

The World Food Programme (WFP) announced that Afghanistan’s currency became stable due to UN’s cash shipment to Afghanistan in 2022.

While the Taliban have banned Afghan women and girls from schools and universities, Nida Mohammad Nadim, the group’s minister of higher education asked the international community for cooperation in the education sector.

Bakhtiyar Hakimov, Russia’s Representative for Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) affairs, in a press conference said that the Taliban has not been recognised for objective reasons, and engagements with the group are “informal”.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's foreign minister, said that forming an inclusive government with the participation of all ethnic groups in Afghanistan is the solution to instability in the country.

Mawlawi Zakir, the Chief of Staff of the acting Prime Minister of the Taliban, said that "the international community should complete its unfinished projects in Afghanistan".

The Taliban leader's latest decree to shut down beauty salons across Afghanistan has been met with wide-ranging reactions from international bodies and organisations.

The Taliban’s interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani addressed a meeting of residents in Pakita province and said that the international community has not recognised the group’s government due to the Taliban not accepting their orders.

Taliban has criticised the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) for not inviting the group to participate in the SCO heads of state virtual summit.

Elaha Delawarzai, the wife of Saeed Khosty, the former spokesperson of the Taliban's Ministry of Interior, on Twitter talked about torture and the experience of solitary confinement inside a Taliban prison.

Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in a joint Declaration said that it essential to establish an inclusive government in Afghanistan with the participation of representatives of all ethnic, religious, and political groups.

Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) announced that the front’s forces have killed a Taliban member In Kapisa province. According to AFF, three other Taliban members have been injured in the attack.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday has asked for meaningful engagement with Afghanistan as the international community is currently at an impasse on the issue.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, addressed the virtual Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit and said that Afghanistan's soil should not be allowed to be used to destabilise the region.

Former Afghan Vice-President Amrullah Saleh, on Monday, said that Washington and the Taliban enjoy a “hidden alliance”. Saleh urged the wise politicians of Afghanistan to end the wait-and-see period and resort to active armed resistance.

Gholamreza Nazparvar, the chairperson of the Chambers of Industry and Mines of Khorasan Razavi province on Monday, expressed regret regarding the official ban on the import of marble and travertine from Afghanistan to Iran.

In a startling report, Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) non-governmental organisation has stated that at least 20% of all 354 executions carried out in Iran in the first six months of 2023, were Baluch minorities.

The World Food Programme (WFP) in a new report has stated that at least 15.3 million people are projected to be acutely food-insecure between May and October 2023 in Afghanistan.