A number of the "Afghanistan Women’s Rights Watch" met with Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, on yesterday (June 28) in Ankara, Turkey.

Pakistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan has announced that hundreds of Afghan students have arrived in Pakistan under the third phase of the Allama Iqbal scholarship program.

Local sources in Helmand province say that a 45-year-old man in Marjah district of the province has married a six-year-old girl. According to these sources, the child’s family gave her to the man in exchange for money. It is said that the man also has two other wives.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in its latest report, has stated that the analysis of drug use patterns in Afghanistan shows that men often begin using drugs at younger ages and with cannabis, while women mostly start with opium.