Afghanistan International: Pakistani customs officials announced the discovery and seizure of a shipment of weapons left behind by US forces in Afghanistan at the Torkham crossing. American media outlet The Media Line wrote that Pakistani officials believe the weapons were supposed to be delivered to militant groups in Pakistan. Click here to read more (external link).
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Afghanistan International: Sources in Badakhshan province told Afghanistan International that the Taliban has separated the hours of admission of male and female patients at the province’s central hospital. According to this division, women should go for treatment in the morning and men in the afternoon. The Taliban official has also banned the sale and purchase of condoms in Badakhshan. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: Local sources told the Hasht-e Subh Daily that, over the past year, the Taliban have been involved in the aid delivery process, even confiscating some of the assistance meant for earthquake victims from certain organizations. These sources also reported that aid distribution has been unfair, with some organizations either demanding money from the victims in exchange for assistance or sharing the aid with local influential elders. Click here to read more (external link).
Afghanistan International: The Afghanistan Freedom Front has claimed responsibility for the killing of three Taliban members, including an official from the Taliban’s Intelligence Department 90, in an attack on Saturday evening at the Alaudin intersection in Kabul. Earlier, local sources had reported an explosion in the area. Click here to read more (external link).
AFP: Afghanistan’s Taliban morality ministry pledged Monday to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, with journalists told the rule will be gradually enforced. “The law applies to all Afghanistan… and it will be implemented gradually” by persuading people images of living things are against Islamic law, spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice Saiful Islam Khyber told AFP. Click here to read more (external link).
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Afghanistan International: A spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice called the Pashtun Jirga of Pakistan the work of “ISI contractors and mercenaries” and a “conspiracy” of the organisation. Without naming anyone, Saif Khyber said that these people were taking advantage of the “compulsions of the Pashtun people”. The Taliban official’s harsh remarks came after participants of the Pashtun Jirga in Khyber supported the right of Afghan girls and women to education and the formation of an inclusive government in the country. Manzoor Pashteen, the leader of the Pashtun Protection Movement, read out the final statement of the National Justice Jirga in the presence of thousands of participants on Sunday evening local time. In his speech, Pashteen called on the participants of the Pashtun Jirga to ask the Afghan Taliban to open schools to girls and form an inclusive government. Click here to read more (external link).
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Khaama: Iran’s chief of police, Ahmadreza Radan, announced that the country’s police are determined to deport two million “illegal” Afghan migrants by the end of this year. Radan made the statement on Sunday, October 13, during a ceremony in Mashhad, stating that arrests of “illegal” Afghan migrants in Iran have increased. Iran’s interior minister, Eskandar Momeni, urged Afghan migrants living in Iran to “return to their country and work to rebuild it.” Click here to read more (external link).
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Tolo News: The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a decrease in the number of diarrhea cases in Afghanistan in its weekly report. According to this report, in the past week (from September 29 to October 5), 3,228 people in 179 districts of Afghanistan contracted diarrhea, showing an 11.7 percent decrease compared to previous weeks. The organization said that three children under the age of five, including two girls, have died as a result of this illness. Click here to read more (external link).