Police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan have announced that a 21-year-old Afghan refugee woman was gang raped in the Haripur district of the province, and five men have been arrested in connection with the incident.

Taliban local officials in Faryab province say that six people have died and six others have been injured in a traffic incident in Maimana city.

The Afghanistan Media Support Organization (AMSO) has expressed deep concern in a statement over the Taliban’s new restrictions against media and journalists in the past week.

In the dry and cold mountains of Ghor province, where life from childhood has taught girls that “silent breathing” is an art, lived a girl who once thought she could change the world; with books, with pens, with knowledge. Her name is Shahla Quraishi; she is 18 years old, but the life of her dreams was much shorter than she thought.