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.

Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, warns that the international community should not only be limited to issuing statements regarding human rights violations in Afghanistan and that practical and more serious measures must be taken in hand to support Afghan women and girls.