Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a new statement on Tuesday urged governments to continue to express their collective outrage at the denial of fundamental rights of women and girls in Afghanistan.
The foreign ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) said that forced displacement of ethnic and religious groups in Afghanistan must be prevented.
Feridun Sinirlioğlu, the UN Special Coordinator for Afghanistan, arrived in Kabul two months after his appointment to the position. In a statement, the Taliban said that Sinirlioğlu met Din Mohammad Hanif, the group’s minister of economy.
The Taliban embassy in Islamabad announced that the UN refugee agency has not taken any action to prevent the harassment of Afghan refugees in Pakistan. This embassy claimed that Afghan refugees in Pakistan are still facing serious challenges.
Reza Shahir, the former reporter of Rah-e-Farda TV, who had been detained by the Taliban on Saturday from the Herat-Kabul highway, has been released. Afghan journalist Rahman Mirzad said that the journalist had been released after two days in detention and under torture.
An official at Iran’s Ministry of Health said that Afghans make up most of the medical tourists of Iran's health sector. Hashem Daryabari, an official of Iran’s Ministry of Health, said that citizens of other countries are also among the patients of Iran’s medical centers.
On Tuesday, the foreign ministers’ council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) met in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Russian media outlets reported that the meeting will discuss global and regional issues, the Ukraine war, and Afghanistan’s situation.
The Taliban executed a man on charges of murder in Mehtarlam city, the capital of Laghman province. On Tuesday, the Taliban Supreme Court announced that the person was executed in public view and in the presence of officials of the group.
In a new report, Amnesty International has highlighted how Afghan refugees in Pakistan have been subjected to waves of arbitrary detentions, arrests, and the threat of deportation.
On Monday, Iranian officials announced that over the past nine days, they have deported 13,879 Afghans from Iran to Afghanistan. Majid Shuja, commander of Khorasan Razavi border guards said that these Afghan refugees had been deported through the Dogharoon border crossing.
The Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has said that apart from “infidels, even the Islamic countries” have not recognised the Taliban government.
Representatives of various countries in the United Nations Human Rights Council criticised the human rights situation in Afghanistan and urged the Taliban to immediately lift the restrictions against Afghan girls and women.
Abdul Matin Qane, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior of the Taliban, said that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other groups are not present in Afghanistan. On Monday, Qane said that ISIS has been suppressed in Afghanistan too.
Iranian lawmaker Mohammad Sargazi said that an Iranian parliamentary delegation will visit Afghanistan to pursue the water rights issue from the Helmand River.
Ahmad Vahidi, the Minister of Interior of Iran, said that negotiations with the Taliban officials regarding border issues had been held. According to ISNA, Vahidi added, "The Taliban has been acquainted with the problems and our borders are calm and open to traffic."
Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson, has said that the Australian authorities have been trying in every possible manner to hide the "war crimes" of their soldiers in Afghanistan.
Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran’s ambassador to Kabul, on Saturday emphasised on the water rights of Iran from the Helmand River through the 1973 water rights treaty between Iran and Afghanistan.
In an interview with TOLOnews, Mullah Yaqoob, the Taliban’s Minister of Defence, said that the Taliban took control of provinces of Afghanistan without any war.
Fada Hossein Maleki, a member of the National Security Commission of Iran’s Parliament, accused the Taliban of double standard and said that the group is saying one thing at the negotiating table and something else in public.
In a report, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan said that there has been widespread and systematic discrimination against women and girls in Afghanistan since the Taliban took power in 2021.
Seven Afghan civil society organisations based in Norway in a statement expressed their dissatisfaction with the Norwegian government regarding their invitation to the Taliban for the Oslo Freedom Forum.