The Women’s Movement Network, in response to the announcement of the 1405 Kankor results, has said that announcing the results of this exam without the presence of even one girl is a sign of the “burial of justice, equality and Afghanistan’s future”.

The Afghanistan Media Support Organisation, AMSO, has announced that Jawid Niazi, head of Paygard News Agency, has been released from a Taliban prison after nearly two months in detention.

A number of teachers at religious schools, mosque instructors and Shia families in Herat province say the Taliban have banned the teaching of several religious books belonging to the Shia denomination.

The Guardian has reported that a recent meeting between European Union officials and a Taliban delegation in Brussels to discuss the return of Afghan migrants has sparked widespread anger among Afghan women and human rights activists.