🚨🏳️🇦🇫 ~ #Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid: Taliban forces are working day and night to ensure the security of the Muharram ceremony so that #Shia citizens can hold this mourn in a safe space.

https://iranpress.com/content/227169

🚨🎥🏳️⚡️ ~ #Taliban security forces beat some #Shia mourners in #Kabul during ongoing Muharram ceremonies.

🚨🏳️🇦🇫 ~ #Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid: #Shia and #Sunni live as brothers in Afghanistan. #Muharram has been observed in Afghanistan for years.

https://t.co/6iNex8iVya

🚨🇵🇰🏳️⚡️ ~ Former #Pakistan Premier Imran Khan praise #Taliban and pitched them as best possible option against #ISKP, calls FM Bilawal Bhutto statement against #Afghanistan as 'stupid' & 'crazy'.

Khan harshly criticized Bilawal-Bhutto for threatening to take anti-terror military action across the border into Afghanistan, calling it a "stupid" and "crazy" statement against the "friendly" and  "pro-Pakistan" Taliban government in Kabul.

Imran Khan further mentioned instead of engaging with the Taliban the current regime of Pakistan is trying to undermine relations with the only pro-Pakistan govt in Afghanistan after decades.

Khan ended his statement mentioning that his government was close to complete negotiations and mechanism with anti-state militant groups such as TTP with the help of Taliban but his government was ousted before things could materialise.

🚨🏳️🤝🇨🇳 ~ As #Taliban govt celebrates 2 years since their return to power, China said that the future of Afghanistan is back in the hands of people, calling it a "historic achievement."

China hailed Taliban for recovering the economy, and safeguarding security.

🔗 ArianaNews

🚨🏳️🪖 ~ Taliban's Minister of Petroleum, Shahab uddin Dilawar, stated in a speech that the #Taliban regime currently possesses a security and Islamic force numbering over 400,000 individuals.

😳 That’s almost same as Pakistan security forces strength in numbers.

🚨🏳️ ~ #Taliban announced the signing of seven mining contracts with companies hailing from #Afghanistan, #Turkey, #China, #Iran, and #Britain.

The combined value of these contracts reaches $6.557 billion.

These contracts encompass the extraction of resources such as gold, copper, lead, and iron.

🚨🏳️⚡️🇮🇷 ~ #Taliban's Foreign Minister Amir Muttaqi indirectly referring to #Iran: You ask us to form an inclusive government. Do you have an inclusive govt? Our prisons do not have as many inmates as you execute. In your country, thousands have disappeared yet nobody dares to ask about it.

🚨🏳️🤝🇺🇸 ~ "The CIA shares #counterterrorism information with the #Taliban." - A senior US administration official has told WaPo.

🔗 Washington Post

🚨🇮🇷🏳️⚡️🏴‍☠️ ~ Iran's intelligence minister Esmail Khatib: #Iran and the #Taliban are working well together to combat terrorism.

Iranian MP Mahmoud Nabavian: With the help of the Taliban, we have prevented [#ISKP's] terrorist attacks in the holy city of #Mashhad.

➡️ https://t.co/Fh0pn8Ccx9

🚨🇦🇹🏳️ ~ Members of Austria’s far right 'Freedom Party' met with the #Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Muttaqi in #Kabul on 24 Sep 2023.

"The members of the Freedom Party stressed and promised that they will portray the real picture of the current situation of Afghanistan to Europe and share it with their officials, people and the member countries of the European Union." - TB Foreign Ministry spokesman.

🚨🇮🇷🏳️ #Iran asked the #Taliban to increase border surveillance to curb illegal immigration.

https://t.co/vQ0OqKfEMo

🚨🇮🇷⚡️🏳️ ~ Pro-state Iranian newspaper Jomhouri Eslami: #Taliban consider itself a creditor "with all the unfair privileges they took" and threaten to conquer Isfahan in 2 days. #Afghan migrants in Iran consume 1000 billion tomans worth of water every year but Taliban don't give us Helmand water.

NOTE: The issue of Helmand water treaty between Iran and Afghanistan is yet to be resolved.

🚨🇵🇰🤝🏳️ ~ Pakistan is set to become 2nd country after China to appoint a full ambassador to #Afghanistan without formally recognizing the Afghan #Taliban government.

🚨🇵🇰⚡️🏳️ ~ #Taliban's Embassy in Islamabad: We call on the Pakistani side to stop the forced deportation and persecution of Afghan refugees, which has a negative impact on the relations between the two countries, as soon as possible, so that people can leave of their own free will.

🚨🇵🇰🇮🇷🏳️ ~ While the #Taliban vehemently oppose the Pakistani government’s expulsion of #Afghan refugees, they remain silent on the mistreatment of Afghan refugees in #Iran, writes Afghanistan’s english newspaper 8am media.

🔗 8ammedia

📸🇺🇿🇹🇯🏳️ - #Uzbekistan recently sent a female scientist Sevara Khodjaeva to explain food safety and plant quarantine rules for trade to the #Taliban.

Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have consistently criticized the Taliban regime for its prohibition of girls' education and the lack of inclusivity in the government.

🚨🇮🇷🏳️ ~ #Iranian Special Envoyfor #Afghanistan Hassan Kazemi Qomi: The #Taliban invested $35 million in #Iran's #Chabahar port city on commercial, residential and administrative projects.

🔗 ifpnews

🚨🏳️🇵🇰 ~ Taliban’s supreme leader advisor killed in Pakistan.

Muhammad Omar Jan Akhundzada, an advisor to #Taliban's Supreme Leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada and head of a madrassa in #Kandahar, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in #Quetta, #Pakistan.

He was visiting his family in Pakistan to spend Eid holidays.

The ISKP group is among the suspects behind the attack.