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Police managed to immobilise the attacker with a shot to the leg, before transporting him to hospital. Other people also sustained injuries in the attack on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported. The Ismaili Center and the hospital where victims are being treated are now under police protection. Meanwhile, Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa has expressed his solidarity with the Muslim community and the victims' families.

Brushing aside the baseless allegations by the US general on the IS strength in Afghanistan, Zabihullah Mujahid said on his Twitter account, "The interest of the US officials in this matter and their grandiosity is aiding and abetting the IS insurgents, which should be stopped."

According to the US Geological Survey, Tuesday night's earthquake struck 40 km southeast of Jurm town in Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province. It was 187.6 km deep, reports CNN. Of the five fatalities, two were reported in Afghanistan's Laghman province, where at least eight more people were also injured, according to Shafiullah.

General Michael Kurilla, head of US Central Command, told Congress that 'at least hundreds of thousands' of US citizens could be vulnerable to an attack by ISIS-K, which has the 'ultimate goal to strike on the American homeland', the Daily Mail reported. ISIS-K -- the Islamic State in Khorasan -- is an IS affiliate based in Afghanistan and a sworn enemy of both the Taliban and the US, the Daily Mail reported.

"Unfortunately I have received information that Hajji Mullah Mohammad Daud Mazamil was killed in a blast organised by enemies of Islam," Mujahid said in a tweet. According to police, the blast took place at 9.27 a.m. on the second floor of Mazamil's office when a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing himself and two others including the Governor.

The Taliban-led government of Afghanistan on Sunday shut the border crossing, accusing Pakis tan of reneging on its commitments, Dawn reported. Irshad Momand, a district administration official in Landi Kotal, told Dawn news that Pakistan responded to "unprovoked" firing from the Afghan side. People living near the border crossing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 worsened a major humanitarian crisis and triggered an economic collapse. Western donors abruptly cut off assistance to the heavily aid-dependent country and imposed sanctions on the new, unrecognised government.

In a latest report, issued by US think tank United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the state of security in Pakistan, its latest surge, re-emergence of TTP led terror attacks and its direct link to the Afghan Taliban regime in Kabul have been discussed in detail. Amid Pakistan's economic crisis and the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan, Amid Pakistan's economic crisis.

Few Taliban members can reach him, and even fewer Afghans have seen him. He refuses to meet foreigners, including the most distinguished religious scholars from the Muslim world, RFE/RL reported. In his attempt to create what he sees as a "pure" Islamic system, experts say, Akhunzada has alienated Afghans and the outside world and is steering the Taliban and the country he rules down a destructive path.

The FIR registered at the Counter Terrorism Department (CDT) police station in Islamabad was based on a statement given by Constable Muhammad Hanif of the Eagle Squad, who was deployed on the road on Friday for surprise snap checking to prevent rising incidents of snatching, Samaa News reported.Hanif said that the squad included Head Constable Adeel Hussain and Head Constable Muhammad Yousaf and Constable Bilal Ahmed and ASI Raza Hasan and his driver in a police van.