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Daniyar Amangeldiev, Kyrgyzstan’s Minister of Economy and Commerce, arrived in Kabul on Wednesday along with a delegation and met Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.

General Asim Munir, the Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan, has emphasised the importance of Pakistani lives over the entirety of Afghanistan.

Information obtained by Afghanistan International indicates that several human rights organisations are conducting investigations into the Taliban's extensive detention of girls for breaching the group's dress code.

Ismatullah Irgashev and Asif Durrani, the special representatives of Uzbekistan and Pakistan for Afghanistan affairs, discussed the situation in Afghanistan.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) reported the destruction of a Taliban military vehicle using a roadside mine at the northern gate of Charikar city, the capital of Parwan province.

On World Education Day, Roza Otunbayeva, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of UNAMA, reiterated her call for the Taliban to end their ban on education for Afghan girls.

Pakistani media outlet International News reported on Tuesday that Pakistan's coal imports from Afghanistan have decreased in recent months.

Ronald Neumann, a former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, indicated that Afghanistan has fallen off the US foreign policy agenda.

The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) reported that Afghan nationals, with 17,500 applications, were the predominant group of asylum seekers in France for the year 2023.

In response to the UNAMA report on the Taliban's detention of Hazara and Tajik girls, the Jamiat-e Islami Party has said that the group is trying to introduce certain ethnic communities against the religious and cultural values of the country.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Monday called for the immediate release of Ehsan Akbari, a journalist for Kyodo News, a Japanese media outlet in Afghanistan.

Amnesty International expressed concerns about the continued detention and risk of torture of Manizha Seddiqi, a women’s human rights defender in Taliban prison.

Vedant Patel, US State Department’s Deputy Spokesperson told the Afghanistan International reporter on Monday, that the Taliban’s treatment of women is a cause of concern for the United States.

The Torkham border crossing, a key route between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been reopened after being closed for 11 days, as informed by sources from Pakistan Customs to Afghanistan International.

On Monday, Pakistan's army announced the killing of seven individuals during clashes in Baluchistan province near the border with Afghanistan.

On Monday, Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Taliban, announced that four survivors from the plane crash in Badakhshan were transferred to Kabul.

UNAMA announced that the Taliban detained women and girls, predominately from Hazara-dominated areas in Dashte Barchi in western Kabul, and also some from Khair Khana area of Kabul, where most residents are Tajiks.

Hundreds of Afghan citizens protested in Italy, France, Sweden, Germany and other countries against the "genocide of the Hazaras" and "gender apartheid" in Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban.

Sources close to the family of Ali Gul Haidari, a former member of Afghan special forces told Afghanistan International, that Haidari was arrested and shot dead in western Kabul on January 16.

Farid Dehqan, the Taliban’s police spokesperson in Kunar province, has confirmed to Afghanistan International that after an explosion in a residential complex in Chapa Dara district, three people died and six got injured.

Local sources have reported the start of a clash between the Taliban and Pakistani border guards in the Sarkanai district of Kunar province.