The Powerful Women’s Movement, on the occasion of International Literacy Day (September 8), condemned this deprivation through a statement and called it a clear violation of human rights and the extinguishing of the future of a nation. The statement said: “The only crime of Afghan girls is being women.”

An explosion of explosives in a residential house in Bala Boluk district of Farah province claimed the lives of seven members of a family, including a woman and five children.

Amnesty International, at the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, warned that the Taliban’s repression of women and violations of human rights have intensified, stressing the need for an independent international mechanism to investigate and hold the group accountable.

Mohammad Omar Mukhlis, a former Taliban commander in Paktia province and a member of the Haqqani Network, admitted during his farewell ceremony that the group had been tasked with killing all journalists. He said that many journalists managed to save their lives by fleeing the country.