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.
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.
A senior Taliban official has said that international recognition is irrelevant to the group’s legitimacy, marking a clear divergence from the stance of Taliban officials engaged in global diplomacy.
Pakistan does not want to see a strong or self-reliant Afghan government, regardless of who leads it, according to a senior Taliban official.
The Taliban’s reclusive leader has claimed that the people of Afghanistan have become distant from Islam and unfamiliar with Sharia law due to decades of “un-Islamic” governance under previous regimes.
UN Women has issued a stark warning that Afghan women and girls returning to the country face heightened risks of poverty, harassment, early marriage, and abuse. The agency is urging urgent international action to protect their rights and ensure long-term support.
The Taliban have weaponised Afghanistan’s justice system to suppress women and girls, amounting to possible crimes against humanity, according to Richard Bennett, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Afghanistan.
Officials in Iran’s Khorasan Razavi province have reported a record surge in the number of Afghan pilgrims passing through the country en route to Iraq for the annual Arbaeen religious observances.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that 14 individuals including one woman were publicly flogged in Kabul and Zabul provinces on charges including alcohol and drug trafficking, theft, and so-called “illicit relationships.”
India’s National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval, is in Moscow this week for high-level talks with senior Russian officials. The discussions are expected to focus on Afghanistan and Russia’s recent recognition of the Taliban government.
Despite repeated UN warnings about the growing humanitarian crisis triggered by the forced deportation of Afghan migrants from Iran and Pakistan, the Taliban claim the situation isunder control.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that severe and prolonged drought in Afghanistan has disrupted farming and livestock activities in half of the country, with conditions worsening across much of the north.
The spokesperson for the Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has altered the ministry’s name in a recent post on social media platform X, apparently to circumvent content moderation policies.
A group of exiled Afghan women has condemned the ongoing deportation of Afghan refugees from Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan, describing the practice as collusion with what they called Afghanistan’s “repressive and misogynistic regime.”