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Reporters in Logar province have said that the Taliban warned the media outlets in the province to not broadcast women’s voices or they will be punished.

Nangarhar Directorate of Refugees and Repatriation announced that in the last three months, about 3,800 Afghan refugees have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan.

The Taliban leader has appointed Qari Mohammad Ayub Khalid, Mawlawi Qudratullah Abu Hamza, and Mawlawi Hezbollah Afghan as the new governors of Badakhshan, Kunar, and Zabul provinces, respectively.

Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's interior minister, said that a joint committee comprising Iranian and Taliban representatives should be formed to address the issue of water rights of Iran from the Helmand River.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a new report that there are increasing signs of large methamphetamine manufacture in Afghanistan and expanded trafficking through South Asia for global markets.

Hossein Sharafati, Directorate of Foreign Nationals and Immigrants of Khorasan Razavi of Iran, said that more than 90,000 Afghans have returned to Afghanistan through the Dogharoon border crossing this year.

Frank Walter Steinmeier, the German President, asked Kyrgyzstan to use its influence to improve the situation in Afghanistan.

Sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban have killed Hamidullah Bahloul, a former employee of a multinational organisation, after he had returned to Kabul.

The Afghanistan National Liberation Party, led by Rahmatullah Nabil, former Afghan spymaster, said that the goal of the “relocation of terrorists” from the south to north of Afghanistan is to turn the area into a “new Waziristan”.

Abdul Hamid Khorasani, an ethnic Tajik commander of the Taliban who is also from Panjshir, said that he has faced unprecedented humiliation and insult by the Taliban.

Nikolai Patrushev, Russian Security Council’s Secretary, said that the current economic situation in Afghanistan encourages drug cultivation in the country.

The British Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) announced on Thursday that the security situation in Afghanistan is extremely volatile and asked UK citizens not to travel to Afghanistan.

The Taliban consulate in Karachi announced that 13 Afghan refugees have been released from the prison of Sindh and have left the country for Afghanistan.

US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised on the formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan. The two leaders also asked the Taliban to respect human rights of all Afghans, including women and girls.

Feridun Sinirlioğlu, the UN Special Coordinator, met the Taliban’s interior and foreign ministers in Kabul on Thursday. Apparently, Sinirlioğlu asked the two Taliban senior officials to "take the UN's concerns seriously”.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan declined to negotiate with the Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), following the Afghan Taliban’s offer to mediate between the TTP and Islamabad.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) said that as part of an agreement with Pakistan and other countries, the Taliban wants to turn Afghanistan into another Waziristan by relocating "thousands of terrorists" to the north of the country.

Taliban has publicly flogged a man in Mata Khan district of Paktika province. In a statement on Thursday, the Taliban’s Supreme Court said that the man had been arrested and punished on charges of "adultery".

Vedant Patel, the principal deputy spokesperson of the US Department of State, during a press conference, said that the Taliban stand in the way of their own desires for international legitimacy.

Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations on Wednesday, expressed concerns about the presence of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, and the expansion of drug production in Afghanistan.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a new statement on Tuesday urged governments to continue to express their collective outrage at the denial of fundamental rights of women and girls in Afghanistan.