The Taliban media office in Khost province has announced that a man sentenced to death will be publicly executed on Tuesday in the provincial stadium. The United Nations has previously urged the Taliban to halt the use of capital punishment in Afghanistan.
Sources have confirmed to Afghanistan International that a Taliban delegation travelled to Saudi Arabia for talks with Pakistani officials, but the negotiations ended without any breakthrough.
Tajikistan’s presidential press office said on Monday that two attacks launched from Afghan territory over the past week have killed five people and injured five others.
A former senior British officer has alleged that UK special forces committed “war crimes” in Afghanistan by carrying out the extrajudicial killing of detainees. He said that senior military officials were aware of the incidents but concealed them.
Pakistani religious leader Fazlur Rehman, head of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), said on Sunday that Pakistan’s long-standing policy toward Afghanistan has failed. He stressed that Islamabad has been unable to turn Kabul into a friend.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front says its fighters launched a rocket attack on Taliban forces in Badakhshan, killing three fighters and wounding two others.
Ishaq Dar, Pakistan’s foreign minister, says that during his most recent visit to Kabul, Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi informed him that a number of members of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had been arrested.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released photos of several Afghan nationals accused of terrorism-related activity and criminal offences, saying they “rewarded American generosity with violence.”
Abdul Rahman Lakanwal, the Afghan national accused of shooting two members of the US National Guard near the White House, had struggled for years with psychological collapse, unemployment and prolonged isolation.
The Taliban in Ruyi Du Ab district of Samangan province have flogged a woman and a man 30 times after accusing them of “running away from home and moral corruption,” and sentenced them to between one and two years in prison.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said he had provided detailed explanations to 27 European countries regarding Islamabad’s recent confrontation with the Taliban.
Pakistan Army spokesperson Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said the country makes no distinction between terrorist organisations and considers all militants a threat, adding that in Pakistan’s view “the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.”
The Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has detained a 70-year-old TikTok user, Malik Akbar, and released a video of his forced confession.