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A high-ranking Afghan delegation will visit Torkham today to resolve the issue with Pakistan, the Nangarhar Governor House said in a statement. The statement added that the delegation will hold direct meeting with Pakistani officials to resolve the issue and reopen the border.

03:22 PM

The sanctions on women in Afghanistan by the Taliban represent a direct threat to all the hard-won mechanisms and systems established over the last 8 decades to protect the human rights, the UN Secretery-General warned. Speaking at the 58th session of the United Nation's Human Rights Council Guterres said" One by one, human rights are being suffocated, by autocrats, by a patriarchy that keeps girls out of school and women from their basic rights". The Taliban-led Interim Afghan Government did not react regarding this so far.

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TKD Monitoring: The Interim Afghan Government confirmed the detention of a UK couple and a Chinese-American and his translator in Afghanistan. The spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior said that negotiations are ongoing to resolve the issue. The UK couple were detained in Bamyan province by the government and according to their daughter, they have lived in Afghanistan for around 18 years and stayed after the political change as well. AFP