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Local sources told Afghanistan International that Abdul Ghafar Saber, one of the former Jihadi commanders, was assassinated on Monday, in Rostaq district of Takhar province.

Thomas West, US Special Representative for Afghanistan, describes Taliban's fight against ISIS-K as serious.

Lotte Knudsen, Head of Delegation of the EU to the UN, said that to ensure peace and stability in Afghanistan, an inclusive political process with the participation of all Afghans, including women and ethnic and religious minorities, is necessary.

Volker Türk, United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, said that despite the Taliban's announced general amnesty, extra-judicial killings, torture and arbitrary arrests have resumed in Afghanistan.

Nicholas Kay, former British ambassador to Afghanistan, said that the Taliban regime will not last long because Afghans do not see themselves living under the group’s rule.

Security sources in Pakistan said that Padshah Khan Mehsud, one of the senior commanders of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), had been injured in an attack in Afghanistan on Sunday.

Michèle Taylor, US Permanent Representative to the UN Human Rights Council, on Monday said that the situation of women in Afghanistan is getting worse every passing day.

At the 54th meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday, Güven Begeç, Turkiye’s representative, said that depriving Afghan women of their right to education and employment will worsen the social and economic situation of Afghanistan in the long run.

During a meeting with Tamana Zaryab Paryani, an Afghan activist, who is on a hunger strike in Germany, the father of Malala Yousafzai, noble peace winner, said that Afghan and Pakistani Taliban are not different, and both are terrorists.

Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, Taliban’s Minister of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, announced that the ministry has more than 5,000 agents in Afghanistan.

Sarfraz Bugti, Pakistan's Acting Interior Minister, has once again criticised the use of Afghan soil to foment violence against Pakistan.

Sources confirmed to Afghanistan International that Taliban arrested Mohammad Hamza Mujadadi, a former security forces member, in Parwan province on Sunday.

Abdul Salam Hanafi, Taliban’s Deputy Prime Minister, responded to international criticisms of the media censorship and restrictions in Afghanistan and said that the media is free under the Taliban government.

As per a Jamestown Foundation research paper, since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the security situation in Pakistan has worsened over the past two years, especially the Baloch separatist insurgency.

Abbas Stanikzai, Taliban's deputy foreign minister for political affairs, said that members of the international coalition which had a military presence in Afghanistan have an obligation to return to the country.

Al-Mersaad, a media outlet affiliated with the Taliban, reported that 12 members of ISIS-K have been arrested in Badakhshan province by the group.

Following the hunger strike by Afghan women activists against Taliban’s policies, Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) criticised the "silence" of western countries and the international media towards the issue.

Senior Taliban officials have announced that they have intensified efforts to takeover Afghanistan's seat at the United Nations.

Mohammad Mohaqiq, leader of the People’s Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan, said that there must be fundamental resolve to the challenges of Afghanistan.

Mohammad Nasir, Taliban’s Deputy Director of Fuel and Gas Authority at the Hairatan port, said that during the past four months, 80 “low-quality” fuel tankers from Uzbekistan had been rejected and sent back to Tashkent.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a statement on Friday said that Taliban authorities in Afghanistan are committing the crime against humanity of gender persecution against women and girls.