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Pakistan’s chief minister of Balochistan said security forces killed 145 militants within 40 hours following coordinated attacks across the province.

More than two-thirds of Afghanistan’s provinces are facing drought and water shortages, with about 16 million people in urgent need of safe drinking water, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.

The head of the Pakistan Ulema Council accused the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan of supporting militants and failing to act against armed groups targeting Pakistan.

Cannabis and opium remain the most widely used drugs among men in Afghanistan, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said in its latest assessment.

A Taliban minister said the group’s administration would implement its policies without obstruction and that no one could prevent it from doing so.

Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said that despite efforts to curb narcotics trafficking, drugs are still being smuggled from Afghanistan into Tajikistan.

Pakistan’s interior minister said Saturday that 10 security personnel and 37 militants were killed in clashes across cities in Balochistan province.

Afghanistan’s embassy in Tokyo formally ceased operations on Saturday, according to the mission’s outgoing ambassador.

Human Rights Watch is urging Western governments to follow through on commitments to pursue legal action against the Taliban at the world’s top court over rights violations.

Telecommunications services were suspended in Quetta, Sibi and Chaman after coordinated attacks by the Baloch Liberation Army across parts of Pakistan’s Balochistan province, local media reported.

At least 60 people have been flogged across Afghanistan over the past week on various charges, according to a statement from the Taliban Supreme Court. Courts in several provinces also handed down prison sentences alongside public floggings.

A spokesperson for Pakistan’s president referred to the Taliban as “brainless beasts” in a social media post reacting to a report on killings in Afghanistan.

Officials in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have warned the federal government that the continued suspension of border trade with Afghanistan is causing significant economic losses.

Tajik border guards clashed with a group of armed men along the border with Afghanistan, leaving three of the suspects dead, the state-run Khovar news agency reported.

Trade between Taliban and Uzbekistan reached $1.7 billion in 2025, a sharp increase from about $1.1 billion in 2024, Uzbek news agencies reported, citing data from the country’s National Statistics Committee.

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved legislation seeking to halt US assistance to Afghanistan under Taliban control.

European Union foreign ministers have designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Thursday.

Taliban intelligence forces have arrested Jan Ali Akbari, the former deputy head of the Ulama Council in Malistan district of Ghazni province, according to local sources.

The Taliban Supreme Court said it had flogged 18 people in Kabul on charges including the sale and trafficking of alcohol, cannabis, methamphetamine and prohibited tablets.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the Asian Development Bank have launched a $100 million food security project in Afghanistan.

Australia’s foreign minister said her country, alongside international partners, is continuing legal action against the Taliban over violations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.