Local sources in Laghman province say that a man in Mehtarlam city, the provincial capital, has killed his wife by shooting her.

The Afghanistan Women’s Powerful Movement, in reaction to the Taliban’s widespread internet shutdown, stated that this action is not a technical restriction but a deliberate tool to hide the Taliban’s crimes and silence the voices of Afghan women.

The Women’s Political Participation Network of Afghanistan, in a statement, described four years of Taliban rule as a period of “systematic violation of the fundamental rights of the people and the taking hostage of the future of a nation.”

Roza Otunbayeva, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan, warned in a UN Security Council meeting that the Taliban’s policies against women and girls have placed the country in the face of “the greatest social and economic crisis.”