UN envoy Richard Bennett is concerned over deteriorating human rights situation, attacks on religious minorities.
At least 11 killed in a series of separate explosions that hit a mosque in Kabul and vehicles in Mazar-i-Sharif city.
Taliban decree ordering female news anchors to cover their faces on air is the latest in a series of restrictions.
Most female presenters were seen with their faces covered while on air on Sunday.
US special envoy on Afghanistan stresses international opposition to Taliban’s treatment of women and girls.
The Taliban has denied the ban on family gatherings and dinners in restaurants and hotels in the eastern province.
A group of students runs the club in Kabul to learn, read and write their own stories amid expanding Taliban curbs.
In their latest decree, the Taliban say it is ‘required for all respectable Afghan women to wear a hijab’.
The move is one of the harshest restrictions imposed on Afghanistan’s women since the Taliban seized power last year.
‘The faces familiar to me, of my family and my friends, are left behind in the country that you took from us.’
Afghans struggle to put food on the table as the humanitarian situation continues to remain grim.
Haibatullah Akhunzada appeared for only the second time since taking control of the Taliban in 2016 to hail ‘security’.
Dozens of Afghan civilians have been killed in recent weeks in blasts, some of which have been claimed by the ISIL (ISIS) group.
Haibatullah Akhunzada calls on the international community to recognise the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan.
