The Taliban’s Supreme Court says 15 people in Kabul have been flogged on charges of selling and trafficking narcotics, while three others in Paktia were flogged for using counterfeit currency.
The Taliban say Afghanistan–Pakistan trade routes will reopen only if Islamabad provides firm guarantees that the crossings will no longer be used for political or economic pressure.
According to SIGAR, from 2002 to mid-2021 the United States allocated approximately $144.7 billion for Afghanistan’s reconstruction, of which an estimated $26–29 billion was lost to waste, fraud and abuse.
Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has accused Pakistan of attempting to advance what he described as “mysterious projects” in Afghanistan, alleging that Islamabad seeks to topple the Taliban by exerting economic pressure.
Three Afghan sources and two Pakistani officials, including one based in Istanbul, told Reuters that a meeting between Taliban and Pakistani representatives was held in Saudi Arabia.
Families of ten Afghan migrants killed by Iranian border forces say the Islamic Republic returned their bodies only after keeping them “hidden for about 24 days.”
An Afghan national living in the United States has been charged with threatening to build a bomb, carry out a suicide attack, and kill Americans, the US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Ryan Raybould, announced on Friday.
The United States has suspended all immigration applications including green card and citizenship requests from nationals of 19 countries, all of them outside Europe.
Uzbek media, citing the country’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, reported on Wednesday that the Termez–Hairatan border crossing has reopened after four years.
The Taliban governor’s spokesperson in Khost said on Tuesday that two sons of a man executed earlier that day have also been sentenced to death. Their executions, he said, have been postponed because the heir of the victims is not currently in Afghanistan.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that Moscow believes dialogue with the Taliban must continue, stressing that Afghanistan remains critically important for regional stability. He also noted that Russian border guards are stationed in Tajikistan.
The Taliban governor’s spokesperson in Khost said on Tuesday that an estimated 80,000 people gathered at a stadium in the provincial centre to watch the public execution of a man convicted of premeditated murder. The Taliban had urged the public a day earlier to attend.
Local sources in Parwan province told Afghanistan International that five former Afghan security personnel were arrested by the Taliban after being deported from Iran.