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Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025
Beijing on Tuesday advised its citizens in Afghanistan to leave the country as soon as possible, following the attack.
Those being punished received between 21 and 39 lashes each, after being convicted in a local court of theft and adultery, said an official in the governor's office on condition of anonymity.
Haqqani was a prominent cleric in the Taliban who had survived previous attacks, including a large blast in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar in 2020 claimed by the Islamic State that killed at least seven people.
Al-Zawahiri, who was killed in a US drone strike carried out by the CIA in Kabul on Sunday, was a top deputy to bin Laden before taking the helm of the group.
The matter came to light Sunday when Ahmadullah Wasiq, director general of the National Radio and Television, Afghanistan, tweeted a photo of one of the team members posing at the venue with the Taliban's flag.
Poverty and hunger have rocketed in Afghanistan since the Islamist militants took power after the United States pulled out, and India has sent food grains and other aid.
'What Samastha has credited in the name of Muslims will be encashed by the Sangh Parivar.'
The move evoked similar restrictions on women during the Taliban's previous hard-line rule between 1996 and 2001.
Three explosions at a boys' high school in western Kabul also left many injured.
Girls have been banned from going to school beyond the sixth grade, women are barred from boarding planes if they travel unaccompanied by a male relative.
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