With the suspension of visa extensions and the increase in arrests in Pakistan, dozens of Afghan journalists who fled to the country after the Taliban’s return to power are now facing the risk of forced deportation.

Local sources in Khost province say that in two separate incidents in the province, a teenage girl and a teenage boy have committed suicide.

On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s takeover, the Powerful Women of Afghanistan Movement, condemning the group’s four years in power, has said that this day is recorded in the collective memory of the Afghan people as a “dark and painful day,” and that since then, the country has fallen into darkness, repression, discrimination, and crisis.

Coinciding with August 15, the Women’s Movement Towards Freedom has said that this day marks “the darkest days in Afghanistan’s modern history and the beginning of darkness, repression, fear, and widespread human rights violations,” a day after which fear, discrimination, and injustice have overshadowed the fate of millions of Afghans.