Following fresh airstrikes attributed to Pakistan on Afghanistan’s border regions, at least three children have been killed and several men and women civilians injured.

Members of the Powerful Women’s Movement of Afghanistan on Wednesday (August 27) once again staged a protest against gender apartheid in Afghanistan.

Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Taliban, in a press conference in Kabul, in response to a question about the inclusion of girls’ education beyond sixth grade in the group’s “National Development Strategy,” described it as “a minor issue.”

Local sources in Nuristan say that in Sherodmi village of DowAb district, a man has shot and killed the parents of his wife.