The Taliban demanded that its representative address the UN General Assembly

According to Reuters, Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mottaqi wrote a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres requesting a speech by Soheil Shahin, the group's spokesman in Doha, at the UN General Assembly. A spokesman for Guterres confirmed the letter

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told a news conference that the group was trying to reopen girls' high schools but did not specify a date. Many in Afghanistan have protested the failure to open a high school for girls

The Taliban announced the names of a number of individuals, including two of the group's military commanders, who have been appointed to key positions in the Taliban government. A Taliban spokesman said Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir would be deputy defense minister and Sadr Ibrahim would be deputy interior minister.

Pakistan has called on world powers to release billions of dollars in Afghan assets that have been blocked since the Taliban returned to power. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says top priority is to prevent deeper economic crisis and humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan

Maryam Monsef, Afghanistan's Peter Burroughs's representative in the Canadian Parliament and Trudeau's Minister of Women and Gender Equality, lost the election to Conservative Michel Ferry. And was criticized