TASS news agency cited Kabulov in a report as saying that Western countries "are putting the cart before the horse," believing that the Taliban must first solve legal issues." "This is not a workable approach."
Among the issues on the agenda included the terrorist sanctuaries in Afghanistan. While Pakistan is concerned over the presence of TTP and its affiliates, China wants the Afghan Taliban to neutralise the threat posed by East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), reported The Express Tribune.
As Afghan girls continue to remain deprived of education under the Taliban regime, girls in Balkh province have once again called out the de-facto authorities to reopen schools for them and let them learn, TOLOnews reported.
At least four farmers have died, and five others have been injured in a dispute over the poppy field destruction in the northeastern Darayim district of Badakhshan province of Afghanistan, Khaama Press reported.
In order to support Afghanistan amid the ongoing crisis, Turkmenistan has sent 125 tons of humanitarian aid including medicine, medical supplies, food and textile products to the country, Khaama Press reported.
"In this meeting, the Prime Minister of that country emphasized on strengthening the relations and increasing the level of trust between the two countries, as well as practical cooperation in the educational, health and economic fields of Afghanistan," he tweeted.
A group of UN-appointed ten Special Rapporteurs, including Richard Bennett and members of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, called on the Taliban to end "brutal and undignified" forms of punishment, including stoning, flogging, and burying people under walls.
He further attacked the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) and said, "If such terror activities are done by Taliban then they are traitors, if anyone else does it then they are banned, does only a particular party have the right to do whatever they want?"
Due to decades of conflict, little rainfall, drought conditions, a donation-based economy, among other things, two-thirds of the population of Afghanistan is in urgent need of humanitarian aid.
Sources confirmed to Khaama Press that Tahir Zaheer, former minister and governor of Afghanistan's Bamyan Province, surrendered to the Taliban forces on Wednesday.