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Iran’s embassy in Kabul announced that a delegation of the Taliban left Kabul for Tehran to participate in the 37th Islamic Unity Conference.

Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s foreign minister, met with the representative of Saudi Arabia on the sidelines of the Moscow Format meeting.

A member of “Pen Path” organisation said that in the coming days, the Taliban will prosecute Matiullah Wesa, an Afghan education activist.

Amnesty International expressed deep concerns over the arbitrary detention of Zholia Parsi, women’s rights activist, and asked for the immediate release of her and other activists from the Taliban prison.

A group of Afghan women's rights activists in Germany resumed their sit-in protest for the recognition of "gender apartheid" in Afghanistan.

During the Moscow Format meeting, special representatives of a several regional countries stressed on counter-terrorism and the formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan.

Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the National Resistance Front (NRF), said that there are no ongoing peace negotiations with the Taliban.

Zamir Kabulov, Russia's Special Representative for Afghanistan, said that the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has no plan to meet the Taliban’s foreign minister.

A day after the Taliban denied the presence of Pakistani fighters in Afghanistan, Jalil Abbas Jilani Pakistan’s acting foreign minister, announced that members of the Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had been arrested in Afghanistan.

Zamir Kabulov, Russia's Special Representative for Afghanistan, quoted the country's foreign minister as emphasising that achieving peace in Afghanistan is improbable without the inclusion of all ethnic groups in the government.

The Moscow Format meeting on Afghanistan started on Friday in Kazan city of Russia.

At the UN General Assembly, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, urged the Taliban to adhere to the Doha agreement and avoid repeating "past mistakes”.

In a new report, the United Nations has confirmed that the Taliban has committed more than 1,600 cases of human rights violations during the detention of individuals in 19 months.

Melanie Joly, Canada's foreign minister, said that the Taliban’s policies to remove Afghan women and girls from social life are devastating.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) on Tuesday claimed that a Taliban commander had been killed in an attack conducted by the front’s forces in Pul-e-Khomri city of Baghlan province.

Taliban military officials have announced the establishment of more than a hundred border outposts along the border with Pakistan in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar and Nuristan.

Neda Parwani, an Afghan female protester, along with her husband and child have been arrested by the Taliban, according to local sources.

Roza Otunbayeva, UN Secretary General Special’s Representative in Afghanistan, met Amir Khan Muttaqi, Taliban’s foreign minister, as part of a broad consultation ahead of the UN Security Council briefing on Afghanistan next week.

Rahmatullah Andar, former spokesperson for the National Security Council of the previous government, said that the body of Khalil Ahmad Akhlaqi, a former security forces member, had been found in Aino Mina area of Kandahar city.

John Kirby, the Spokesperson for the US National Security Council on Monday, told Afghanistan International that the US’ policy towards the Taliban has not changed.

According to a document from the Taliban’s Supreme Court, the group's military court has cleared Mullah Ahmad, the director of the Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) in Kabul of allegations of "inappropriate relations with his bodyguard”.