The UN Security Council on Thursday, February 12, extended the mandate of its sanctions monitoring team overseeing measures against the Taliban and entities threatening Afghanistan’s peace and security for another year, keeping the group under UN sanctions.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says a new United Nations sanctions monitoring report supports Islamabad’s long-standing concerns about the presence of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Islamic State group in Afghanistan.
The Taliban’s Finance Ministry says it is reactivating the Afghanistan–Saudi Arabia Joint Economic Commission on the orders of the group’s leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, in an effort to expand bilateral economic cooperation.
Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister for economic affairs, said the group’s administration is working to bring Afghans together under what he described as a single “Islamic and national position.”
Mohammad Sadiq Khan, Pakistan’s special representative for Afghanistan, met a delegation from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in Islamabad to discuss regional security concerns and cooperation.
Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s acting foreign minister, discussed expanding relations with Tajikistan during a meeting with Tajik Ambassador to Kabul Sadi Sharifi, the Taliban Foreign Ministry said.
Iran’s deputy oil minister, Seyed Ali-Mohammad Mousavi, has travelled to Kabul to discuss increasing exports of fuel and liquefied gas to Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s special representative for Afghanistan has met the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan to discuss the country’s human rights situation, recent developments and security challenges.
Richard Lindsay, the United Kingdom’s special representative for Afghanistan, said on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science that the country’s future depends on equal opportunities, stressing that girls must be free to learn and women free to work in science.
A new United Nations sanctions monitoring report says the Taliban are supporting the activities of militant groups, including al-Qaida, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, inside Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s defence minister has said the country may take action against militants in Afghanistan before the start of Ramadan, warning that delays in addressing security threats would carry serious consequences.
The United Nations says 1,607 days have passed since the Taliban banned girls from attending secondary school in Afghanistan, warning that the continued restriction threatens the country’s future.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says more than 75 precent of Afghanistan’s population is facing livelihood insecurity, with female-headed households among the most affected.
Afghanistan remains among the world’s most corrupt countries, according to Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which shows the country’s ranking worsening slightly in 2025 under Taliban rule.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) held the third meeting of the private sector working group under the Doha Process in Kabul.
Pakistan’s defence minister said the country’s involvement in the wars in Afghanistan was driven by political considerations rather than religion.
An Afghan man who previously served in Afghanistan’s former special forces was killed in a violent attack in Bergen, Norway, police and family members said.
Tajikistan’s foreign minister, Sirojiddin Muhriddin, said the country’s security institutions are cooperating with the Taliban to prevent tensions along the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border.
The Taliban’s minister for the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice has described the Taliban administration as the “father of the nation,” saying citizens are obliged to accept the group’s rule.
Three months after the Taliban ordered a halt to pharmaceutical trade with Pakistan, medicine prices in Kabul have risen by as much as 40 precent, according to pharmacy owners and market sources.
The Taliban Supreme Court said the group publicly flogged four people in the provinces of Kapisa and Zabul in front of local residents.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Finance says a complete ban on the import of medicines from Pakistan has taken effect, urging traders to seek alternative supply routes.