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The Taliban’s Ministry of Finance says it returned 166 tankers of low-quality fuel from Afghanistan’s customs points between 22 June and 22 July.

Senior Taliban figure Anas Haqqani says the group originally intended to enter Kabul in 2021 through a negotiated arrangement with the then-government to preserve international legitimacy.

The Taliban in Kunar, Nangarhar, Nuristan and Laghman provinces have pressured independent radio stations to dedicate programming on 15 August to promote pro-Taliban propaganda, local sources told Afghanistan International.

The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday it had summoned officials from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) over a report detailing the detention and torture of Afghan migrants deported from neighbouring countries.

he United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has, in its latest quarterly human rights report, documented mass arrests of ethnic Uzbeks and widespread abuses across the country.

Iran’s justice minister has warned that any mistreatment of Afghan migrants during deportation will lead to legal action against those responsible, amid growing reports of abuse.

Following the Taliban’s official ban on opium cultivation and trafficking, some Taliban officials and drug smugglers have turned to producing methamphetamine, locally known as shisha, derived from the ephedra plant, known in Afghanistan simply as ephedra.

On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the collapse of Afghanistan’s former government and the Taliban’s return to power, the group’s spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, has called on the United States and other countries to follow Russia in recognising the Taliban administration.

The Taliban’s Supreme Court says 31 people have been publicly flogged in the past week across six provinces, bringing the total number punished in the past month to 81 men and women nationwide.

The Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has dismissed a United Nations report on the harassment and abuse of women and girls returning to Afghanistan, calling it “far from reality, political, and irresponsible.”

The Taliban’s Ministry of Finance says it has installed 215 security cameras at customs laboratory sections in Torkham, Dand Patan, Khost, Ghulam Khan Port and Nimruz, with plans to link them to the General Customs Department in Kabul.

More than one million Afghans have been expelled from Iran over the past 100 days, including 400,000 from Tehran province alone, Governor Mohammad Sadegh Motamedian said Saturday.

The brother of Afghan-American hostage Mahmood Shah Habibi has accused the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of failing to act to secure his release from Taliban custody, despite maintaining contacts with the group’s intelligence service.

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry has rejected recent comments by Abdul Latif Mansoor, the Taliban’s Minister of Energy and Water, calling them contrary to “common sense, history, and the facts.”

Taliban governor of Balkh, Yousuf Wafa, has urged the full implementation of decrees issued by the group’s leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada.

Iran deported at least 5,608 Afghan migrants on Thursday, according to the Taliban’s High Commission for Addressing Migrants’ Issues.

Former Afghan military personnel who served alongside British forces during NATO’s mission in Afghanistan say their applications for relocation to the UK have been denied, despite a major data breach.

Pakistan’s military said Friday that 33 members of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed in an overnight operation near Zhob district in the southwestern province of Balochistan, after attempting to infiltrate from Afghanistan.

Taliban morality police have been raiding homes in parts of the Afghan capital to shut down in-home beauty salons, destroying equipment and threatening female beauticians and their families with arrest, residents told Afghanistan International.

Residents of Panjshir province say the Taliban has intensified restrictions on women’s movement, reportedly preventing those not wearing a burqa from travelling freely and subjecting them and those accompanying them to harassment and violence.

India has quietly handed over control of the Afghan consulate in Hyderabad to a Taliban representative to run the mission, according to a source in the Taliban’s Foreign Ministry.