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The PIA said that ever since the new Taliban government was formed, its staff in Kabul had faced last-minute changes in regulations and flight permissions along with "highly intimidating behaviour" by Taliban commanders. It said its country representative had been held at gunpoint for hours at one point and was only freed after the Pakistan Embassy in Kabul intervened, the report said.

PIA spokesperson Abdullah Khan confirmed the development, saying that Kabul operations of the airline will remain suspended until further notice. The spokesperson emphasised the fact that PIA had kept flying in and out of Kabul under "difficult circumstances" when others had ceased their operations.

Some shocking stories have come to light where families have sold their one-year-old daughters for money, livestock and weapons, the report said.The buying and selling rate of an underage girl is usually between 100,000 and 250,000 Afghanis in the province. According to sources, if the buyer does not have cash, he will give the girl's family weapons or livestock in return.

A statement released by the State Department on Monday said: "Because of security threats at the Serena Hotel, we advise US citizens to avoid travelling to the hotel and the surrounding vicinity. "US citizens who are at or near the Serena Hotel should leave immediately."

In a statement issued on Friday night, the terror group identified the suicide bomber as Muhammad, an Uyghur Muslim, reports Khaama Press. The blast occurred inside a Shia Muslim mosque building in Kunduz city, the provincial capital, at around 2 p.m. when over 300 hundred people were attending the Friday prayers. However, there were conflicting reports over the death toll.

In a statement issued on Friday, Ministry spokesperson Qari Saeed Khosty said: "The Islamic Emirate does not allow anyone to torture anyone after the amnesty it announced. This is the policy of the Islamic Emirate. If any minor incidents happen in some places, the Islamic Emirate will try to investigate it," TOLO News reported.

"As the problems at Kabul International Airport have been resolved and the airport is fully operational for domestic and international flights, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan assures all airlines of its full cooperation and expects all airlines and countries that had previously flown to Kabul to resume their flights as before," spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi said in a statement on Sunday.

Further, a Facebook post written by a person named Arif Bahrami who claims to be college class fellow of Ghairat has also been doing the rounds on social media, the Pakistan-based Friday Times newspaper reported. Bahrami claims that Ghairat was always disrespectful towards his women class fellows and professors while he was studying at the Kabul University.

Airport director Abdul Hadi Hamadani told Xinhua news agency on Monday that domestic and cargo flights carrying aid items are operating and authorities are working to solve a number of technical problems for the resumption of all commercial international flights. He made the remarks after local media reported earlier in the day that the airport has launched international flights.

The Chinese ambassador met the acting minister of refugees and repatriates, Khaliluranman Haqqani, and said that Chinese assistance will arrive by winter this year, Khaama News reported. As per the statement of the ministry, China will provide the people of Afghanistan with $15 million in humanitarian aid and one million doses of Covid vaccine. Earlier, Yu along with the Pakistani ambassador to Kabul, Mansoor Ahmad Khan, was the first foreign envoy who met the acting foreign minister of Afghanistan after the Taliban declared their interim cabinet.