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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has expressed his willingness to visit Afghanistan to open what he described as a new chapter in bilateral relations.

Pakistani police have arrested a group of Afghan migrants in Islamabad’s B-17 township, with women and children reportedly among those detained, according to local community leaders.

The Refugee Rights division of Human Rights Watch has described recent footage showing the detention of Afghan women and girls in Pakistan as shocking and deeply distressing to the human conscience.

Authorities in Rawalpindi have intensified efforts to arrest and deport undocumented Afghan nationals, following new orders issued by the city’s police chief to divisions in Rawal, Potohar, and Saddar.

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister,Ishq Dar, said Islamabad is prepared to take any positive step toward supporting Afghanistan’s future but does not intend to interfere in the country’s internal affairs.

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry has dismissed reports suggesting imminent recognition of the Taliban administration, calling the matter “speculation.”

Afghan residents in Austria staged a protest outside the United Nations office in Vienna on Thursday, denouncing the mass deportation of Afghan migrants from Iran and Pakistan and calling for humane treatment.

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry has said that the Afghan Taliban have shown a willingness to address Islamabad’s concerns over the presence of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants operating from Afghan territory.

China’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Yue Xiaoyong, met with Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul to discuss cooperation with the international community, regional diplomacy, and Afghanistan’s reconstruction and stability.

The United Arab Emirates has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Afghan refugees, following reports suggesting some may face deportation or possible handover to the Taliban.

The German Foreign Ministry has confirmed that two Taliban-appointed diplomats have entered Germany and will begin their consular duties after completing administrative formalities.

The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced the public flogging of five individuals, including two women, on charges of “illicit relations” in Jowzjan province and the city of Mazar-e-Sharif.

The World Organization Against Torture has released a report exposing new and detailed accounts of physical and psychological abuse in Taliban detention centres, citing evidence of systematic torture by the group’s intelligence agency.

The United Nations has warned that Afghan returnees, particularly women, former military personnel, ex-government employees, and journalists, are at serious risk of torture, arbitrary detention, and other human rights violations under Taliban rule.

The Taliban have arrested and sentenced Abdul Sami Ghaznawi, a prominent cleric who has served as a mentor to many of the group’s members for more than three decades, according to informed sources.

Germany’s ambassador to Canada, Matthias Lüttenberg, said Wednesday that Berlin’s engagement with the Taliban should not be interpreted as recognition of the group as Afghanistan’s legitimate government.

Prominent Shia cleric Vaezzadeh Behsoodi announced on Wednesday that the Taliban have shut down his office in western Kabul, expelled its staff, and sealed the premises.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has invited the Taliban’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to attend the next round of Moscow Format talks, the Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday.

A new wave of arrests targeting women and girls in Kabul was launched under the direct orders of Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Diplomats at the Afghan consulate in Bonn have threatened to resign en masse if the German government moves forward with recognising Taliban-appointed representatives, diplomatic sources told Afghanistan International.

Iran’s education minister said the United Nations has covered less than one percent of the estimated $100 million the country spends annually to support Afghan refugees, calling for greater international assistance.