Security
Kabul: At least 14 people were killed and dozens more wounded when a busy market in northern Afghanistan was hit by mortar fire, officials said. Several Taliban shells hit the market in the Khwaja Sabz Posh district of Faryab province, according to Hanif Rezaee, an Afghan army spokesman. The News, Dawn
Socioeconomic
Doha: The seventh round of peace talks between the United States and Afghanistan´s Taliban that are ongoing in Qatar are the “most productive” so far, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad. The News, Dawn, Tribune
Peshawar: An anti-terrorism court handed over the custody of a senior office-bearer of an international non-governmental organization to the CTD of police on a terror financing charge for 3 days. Dawn, TNN
