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In Ghor, unidentified assailants have carried out the murder of a well-known Taliban judge and his young daughter, according to local reports.

Al-Mirsaad, a Taliban-affiliated media outlet, claimed that the Pakistani intelligence orchestrated the suicide attack on Friday in Kandahar city, and has been carried out by ISIS.

ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the explosion in front of the Kabul Bank branch in Kandahar city. According to Amaq, a news agency affiliated to ISIS, a suicide bomber targeted "Taliban militants”.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) announced that with the beginning of the new academic year in Afghanistan, 1.4 million girls have still been deprived of education beyond the sixth grade.

Sources from Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar province informed Afghanistan International that in an explosion on Friday in the first district of this city, at least 21 people had been killed, and 50 others got injured.

Zahra Baloch, Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokesperson, provided details regarding the country's airstrikes on Khost and Paktika during a press briefing in Islamabad.

Kandahar, stronghold of the Taliban, was rocked by a shocking explosion on Thursday. The blast occurred as Taliban forces were queuing up to receive their salaries near Kabul Bank.

Atta Mohammad Noor, the leader of one faction of the Jamiat-e-Islami Party, announced the formation of the party's Supreme Decision-Making Council.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban's Interior Minister, expressed gratitude for the initiation of operations by the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Kabul during a meeting with the country’s ambassador.

The French Permanent Mission at the United Nations, following a session on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan attended by Afghan women activists, called for the immediate reversal of restrictions against women imposed by the Taliban.

The German police arrested two Afghan citizens for plotting an attack on police and civilians near the Swedish Parliament.

Kenneth McKenzie, the former CENTCOM commander, has said that while the Taliban currently shows no inclination to attack America, they have provided sanctuary to groups that are intent on targeting the country and its forces.

Zahra Elahian, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian Parliament, emphasised on the need to review the conditions for granting citizenship to Afghans.

In the aftermath of Pakistan's air strikes on Paktika and Khost, Vedant Patel, a US State Department spokesperson, urged Islamabad and the Taliban to reconcile and resolve their differences.

Mark Milley, the previous Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with Kenneth McKenzie, the former CENTCOM commander, are set to testify before the US Congress about the tumultuous withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan.

Thomas West, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan, announced that he is scheduled to visit India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this week to discuss cooperation in how to support Afghans.

Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement and accused the Taliban of using the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as a proxy against Pakistan.

Amir Abbas Lotfi, Iran’s Director General of the International Relations Office of the Drug Control Headquarters, stated that transformation of Afghanistan into a major producer of “methamphetamine" must be taken seriously.

The Taliban’s Defence Ministry has, for the first time, released a picture of Mullah Yaqoob, the defence minister of the group, wearing the uniform of an army general.

The Ministry of Interior in Punjab, Pakistan, has officially announced the initiation of the second phase of deporting Afghan migrants from the region.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Defence has reported that their border forces targeted military installations in Pakistan using heavy artillery as a countermeasure to what they described as "Pakistan's aggression”.