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The U.S. officials stated that the weekend meeting was a sequence of "pragmatic engagements” with the Taliban and "not about granting recognition or conferring legitimacy" to the organisation.
According to the government media office, they include orders against publishing topics in dispute with Islam or offending national personalities and direct journalists to present news reports.
The Taliban government have banned the broadcast of the IPL due to the display of cheerleaders and the attendance of barred hair women in the crowd by deming it to be anti-Islamic content.
Newly appointed chairman of the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB), Azizullah Fazli told Reuters that they are committed to promoting the women’s game in the country and is optimistic that their one-off test against Australia in November will be played.
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane carrying a handful of passengers touched down at Kabul airport, the first global commercial flight to land since the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan on August 15.
The female university students would be required to wear a hijab but did not elaborate on whether this only meant a compulsory headscarf or also mandatory face coverings.
The director-general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) along with intelligence heads of multiple nations, including China and Russia held a meeting, in which the evolving situation in Afghanistan was being discussed.
Warning given to the security council on the cutting of billions of dollars in international Afghan assets to keep them out of Taliban hands would automatically spark "a severe economic downturn."
Under the 1267 Sanctions regime, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed as well as Haqqani Network prohibited terror entities under UNSC resolution 1267 (1999) are also listed as global terrorists.
As a chartered Qatar Airways flight from Kabul landed in Doha, the White House stated that the Taliban had been businesslike and expert of their facilitating the departure of American residents and others from Afghanistan.
Actress Somy Ali lauds the Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Malala Yousafzai on International Literacy Day. The actress referred to Malala's fight for women's education with the Taliban and also expressed grief over the capture of Afghanistan by the Taliban.
Taliban spokesperson said that Afghanistan had "gained freedom," stressing that "only the will of Afghans" will be applicable in the country.
The Haqqani Network, endorsed by Pakistan have negligible interest in forming a government in Afghanistan, however, the group is keenly looking forward to a conservative Sunni Pashtun coming into power.
Taliban fighters fired weapons into the air in celebration. At least 17 people have been killed in Kabul.
The Director-General of ISI Lt Gen Faiz Hameed reached Kabul seemingly to assist in Taliban government formation.
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