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M. Muradi no longer wants to return to his home in Malistan district of Ghazni province. The elderly man was forced to leave his home and seek refuge in Kabul a few months ago after spending two weeks in Taliban custody, where he says he was subjected to relentless torture. He now lives with his daughter in Kabul, while his elderly wife and two other daughters remain in Malistan. Muradi says he was detained during the summer of 2026 while irrigating his farmland and taken to the district center. There, he alleges, Taliban members tortured him day and night for two weeks. His ordeal, he says, began with demands for a weapon the Taliban link to his son, a young man who served in the Afghan security forces under the former government and now works as a laborer abroad. Read the full report here: kabulnow.com/?p=56542

The Taliban have detained six more residents of Afghanistan’s Panjshir province, local sources said, as the group intensifies its crackdown on civilians following an explosion claimed by an anti-Taliban armed group. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56557

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has warned that millions of people in Afghanistan face harsh winter conditions without adequate shelter, warm clothing, or heating supplies, amid a deepening humanitarian crisis and severe funding shortages. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56554

Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) has arrested a member of Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region and transferred him to Turkey, Turkish media reported on Friday. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56550

The international community must not allow the Taliban’s regime of repression and institutionalized discrimination to become normalized while it continues to destroy the lives of Afghans, particularly women and girls, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan said on Thursday. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56547

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan increased nearly fivefold in 2026 compared with the previous year, despite the Taliban ban, according to a UN survey released on Thursday. The Taliban rejected the finding as inconsistent with its field data. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56532

Several Afghan and international civil society organizations raised serious concerns over the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to open a separate investigation into Afghanistan, warning that it could complicate proceedings and limit victims’ access to justice. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56527

Germany has deported 40 Afghan nationals convicted of criminal offences to Kabul on a direct charter flight, German media reported, as Berlin continues removals despite widespread criticism over returns to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56523

The Taliban have detained two more civilians in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province, local sources said, as the group intensifies its crackdown on residents of the province following an explosion in the area claimed by an anti-Taliban group. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56520

Pakistan’s military said on Wednesday, October 28, that nine militants were killed during two security operations in Balochistan province, which borders Afghanistan, amid a continuing surge in militant violence across Pakistan. In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Pakistani military’s media wing, said the operations were conducted on October 26 in Kachhi and Wadh districts following intelligence reports about the presence of militants allegedly linked to what Pakistan calls Fitna al-Hindustan. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56516

At least one civilian was killed and five others were injured during clashes between Taliban forces and Pakistani border guards in Angoor Adda, along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border between Paktika and South Waziristan. The fighting began at around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, along the Durand Line near Angoor Adda, in Barmal district of southeastern Paktika province, according to a security source in Barmal who spoke to KabulNow. The confrontation continued into the evening, with reports of gunfire and shelling affecting civilian areas on both sides of the border. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56513

Afghanistan has been ranked the worst-performing country in South Asia and the second-worst worldwide in the rule of law, ahead of only Venezuela, according to an index released by the World Justice Project on Tuesday. The report placed Afghanistan 142nd out of 143 countries, giving it a score of 0.31. The ranking highlights the country’s poor performance in upholding the rule of law under Taliban rule. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56510

Afghanistan’s exports fell by 17.35% in the first six months of the current solar year compared with the same period last year, while imports increased, according to Taliban figures, as border closures between Afghanistan and Pakistan continue to disrupt trade. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56505

Daughters of Taliban members were among students attending a secret school established in Kabul to provide education to Afghan girls and women barred from formal schooling, an Italian aid worker has told an Italian newspaper. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56500

A man shot and killed his wife before taking his own life in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province on Monday afternoon, local sources said, amid ongoing reports of domestic violence and killings across the country. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56494

A man was shot dead by unidentified armed assailants in eastern Afghanistan’s Nuristan province on Monday, local sources reported, amid a recent increase in mysterious killings and other violent crimes across the country. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56490

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry has accused Taliban authorities in Afghanistan of actively supporting Pakistani militant groups and allowing them to plan attacks from Afghan territory, while rejecting allegations that Pakistani airstrikes have killed civilians in Afghanistan. In a statement issued on Monday, October 26, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said attacks planned and launched from Afghan territory had killed thousands of Pakistani civilians and caused more than 3,500 casualties in 2026 alone. It said Islamabad could not remain indifferent to repeated attacks against its civilians and security forces. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56487

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched the second phase of an economic recovery programme in Afghanistan, with support from South Korea, to strengthen livelihoods and rebuild community infrastructure in five provinces. UNDP Afghanistan announced the launch on Monday, October 26, saying the second phase of the Reviving Economic Activities and Improving Vulnerable Environments (REVIVE II) programme would focus on strengthening livelihoods, rebuilding social infrastructure, revitalising economic activities and improving communities’ resilience. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56484

A 12-year-old boy has been killed after an old piece of unexploded ordnance detonated while he was playing with it in eastern Nangarhar province, local Taliban officials said. The incident occurred on Sunday evening, October 25, in the Gandumak area of Sherzad district, according to a statement from the Taliban governor’s media office in Nangarhar. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56481

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says it is continuing to deliver humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan through Uzbekistan, using a logistics and supply hub established in the Uzbek city of Termez to maintain the flow of life-saving supplies into the country. Tajudeen Oyewale, UNICEF’s representative in Afghanistan, said in a video posted on X on Sunday, October 25, that the agency had established the logistics centre in Termez to transport humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=56478