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Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, met with Uzbekistan's Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov in Tashkent.

Amnesty International expressed concern over the "arbitrary arrest" of Parisa Azada, a women's rights activist, and demanded her immediate and unconditional release from the Taliban prison.

Markus Potzel, deputy head of UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), visited Panjshir province and met with Mohammad Agha Hakim, the Taliban’s governor for the province.

General Anatoly Sidorov, chief of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Joint Staff, announced that the Taliban still do not have full control over the situation in Afghanistan.

Abdul Bari Omar, Director of the Taliban's National Food and Drugs Administration, addressed Afghans in Cologne, Germany.

Evgeny Vinokurov , the chief economist of the Eurasian Development Bank, has warned that the establishment of the Qosh Tepa canal by the Taliban will lead to a water crisis in Central Asia.

Taliban’s intelligence agency detained, Parisa Azada, an Afghan women's rights activist on Wednesday, in Kabul.

The government of Pakistan announced that 317,225 Afghan immigrants have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Interior announced the formation of a special unit to ensure the security of the Qosh Tepa channel.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) launched an assault on a Taliban outpost in Kandahar City on Wednesday evening. According to AFF, the attack resulted in the death of one Taliban member and injuries to two others.

Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed concern regarding the arbitrary expulsion of Afghan immigrants accompanied by ill-treatment, abuse and destruction of their property.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced that the group, Pakistani and Uzbek officials signed a commercial and transit cooperation agreement in Islamabad.

Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) and the private company "Afghan Invest" have signed the contract for completion of 500 KV Sheberghan-Dashte Alwan electricity transmission project and enhance the development of the Dashte Alwan substation.

The Taliban's Ministry of Agriculture has called reports of land distribution around the Qosh Tapa canal as “baseless”.

Following the halt of over three thousand containers belonging to Afghan traders in Karachi, the Taliban has urged Pakistan to release these shipments.

Daniel Enders, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), announced on Tuesday that more than 327,000 refugees have returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan over the last two months.

Abdul Latif Mansur, the Taliban's Minister of Energy and Water, met with Ali Akbar Mehrabian, Iran's Minister of Energy, in Tehran and discussed the extension of the contract for importing electricity from Iran to Afghanistan.

Local sources in Herat confirmed that the Taliban prevented female students from attending classes by attacking educational centers.

Members of the Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), and the UN Security Council’s Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team discussed Afghanistan.

Zamir Kabulov, Russia's Special Representative for Afghanistan, has stated that Moscow is currently not considering the recognition of the Taliban.

Abdul Jabbar Takhari, the Taliban's Consul General in Karachi, alleged that Sindh province police in Pakistan have been detaining Afghan immigrants with valid documents, only to release them upon receiving bribes.